Paerau Corneal

Paerau Corneal (b 1961) is a New Zealand ceramicist of Tūwharetoa and Te Āti Haunui-a-Paparangi descent.

Paerau Corneal
Born
Paerau Corneal

1961
New Zealand
EducationWaiariki Institute of Technology Certificate (Craft Design) 1988, Diploma (Craft Design Māori) 1991
Known forCeramics, pottery

Education

Corneal holds a Certificate in Craft Design 1988 and a Diploma in Craft Design Māori 1991 from Waiariki Institute of Technology.[1]

Career

Corneal has exhibited both internationally and nationally since 1988. A consistent theme in her work is Māori female empowerment.[2] From 2013 Corneal has been collaborating with contemporary Māori dancer Louise Potiki-Bryant. Their performance work entitled Kiri references a creation narrative of the first Māori human, Hineahuone and opened for the 2014 Tempo Dance Festival in Auckland.[3]

Throughout her career, Corneal has been involved in varying artist collectives.[4] She was a founding member, alongside Manos Nathan, Baye Riddell, Wi Taepa and Colleen Waata Urlich of Ngā Kaihanga Uku, a collective of Māori Clay workers.[5] Corneal was also involved with Kauwae, a collective of Māori women artists formed in 1997; Te Rōpū o Ngā Wāhine Kai Whakairo, a collective of Māori women carvers and Haeata Women’s Collective.[2]

Selected exhibitions
  • 2013-5 Uku Rere, Ngā Kaihanaga Uku. Pataka Art + Museum; Whangarei Art Museum Te Manawa Toi; the Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatu; Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato; Tairawhiti Museum Te Whare Taonga o te Tairawhiti; and Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science + History.[6]
  • 2014 Slip Cast, The Dowse Art Museum[7]
  • 2009 Kauwae 09, Kauwae Group, a national collective of Mäori women artists. Tairawhiti Museum.[8]
  • 2005 Manawa: Pacific heartbeat. Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver.[9]
  • 2003 Kiwa: Pacific connections: Maori art from Aotearoa. Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver.[10]
  • 2003-5 Ngā Toko Rima, Ngā Kaihanga Uku. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Tinakori Gallery, Wellington.[2]
  • 2002 Sisters Yakkananna/Kahui Mareikura. Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide.[11]
  • 1998 Uku! Uku! Uku! International Festival of the Arts, Wellington[1]
  • 1992 Treasures of the Underworld. World Expo, Seville; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Collections

Corneal's work is held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.[12]

References
  1. McPherson, Heather; King, M; Evans, J; Nunn, M (1992). Spiral 7: a collection of lesbian art and writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Dunedin: Spiral. ISBN 0908896247.
  2. Smith, Huhana; Solomon, Oriwa; Tamarapa, Awhina; Tamati-Quenell, Megan; Heke, Norm (2007). Taiawhio II: Contemporary Māori Artists 18 new conversations. Wellington: Te Papa Press. ISBN 9780909010096.
  3. Rae, Bernadette (2014). "Dance Review: Kiri, Mataqali Drift, Tempo Dance Festival". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  4. "Paerau Corneal". Spirit Wrestler Gallery. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  5. "Uku Rere". Pataka Art + Museum. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  6. "Uku Rere". Toi Māori. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  7. "Slip Cast". The Dowse Art Museum. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  8. "Exhibitions" (PDF). Tairawhiti Museum. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  9. "Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat". Spirit Wrestler Gallery. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  10. Reading, Nigel; Grant, June (2003). Kiwa: Pacific connections, Māori art from Aotearoa. Vancouver B. C.: Spirit Wrestler Gallery. ISBN 1896954340.
  11. Cubillo, Francesca; Te Ao, Ngapine (2002). Sisters: Yakkananna, Kahui mareikura. Adelaide: National Aboriginal Cultural Centre.
  12. "Collections Online". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 9 January 2015.


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