Tai Timu, Tai Pari — The Ebb Tide, The Flood Tide Maraea Timutimu

Maraea Timutimu is a multidisciplinary artist hailing from Tauranga Moana. She works across a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and installation. Often she returns to, and references, traditional Māori artforms like poi, tukutuku and raranga within her practice.

Maraea uses the interconnected relationship between whakapapa and whenua to ground her practice and process within te ao Māori. Whenua painting and portraiture are pathways for her to explore connection to place, as she collects and uses earth pigments to document the lands and waters to which she belongs, and to observe their changing landscapes. Her art is centred on intuitive relationships to patterns and mark-making, knowledge-sharing and building the strength of community.

A student of Queen Victoria Māori Girls Boarding School, she holds a Master of Fine Arts from Whitecliffe College and studied under Tina Wirihana at Te Wānanga o Awanuiarangi.