Paerau Corneal

Paerau Corneal
Born Paerau Corneal
1961
New Zealand
Education Waiariki Institute of Technology Certificate (Craft Design) 1988, Diploma (Craft Design Māori) 1991
Known for Ceramics, pottery

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

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. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 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. 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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