Nga Kaihanga Uku: Maori Clay Artists Photography History and the tenderness that keeps

and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation

Funny and strange

this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world

and Dinoblock

Nga Kaihanga Uku: Maori Clay Artists Photography History and the tenderness that keepsThe rise of an impressive ceramics movement is one of the more striking developments in contemporary Mori art. Clayworking and pottery firing was an ancient Pacific practice, but the knowledge had largely been lost by the ancestors of Mori before they arrived in Aotearoa. After the national clayworkers collective, Ng Kaihanga Uku, was established in 1987, traditional ancestral knowledge and customs and connections with indigenous cultures with