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Some of the Kiīgi Tūheitia Portraiture Awards finalists, from left, Tessa Williams created ‘’#It’sNotAboutATie’’; Hikurangi Tikitiki-o-Rangi Mangū carved a portrait of his tupuna ‘’Hinematikotai’’; and Suzanne Tāmaki’s ‘’Cultural Preservation’’.
The phone line crackles a little as the god of weather, Tāwhirimātea hurls Ranginui s, his father’s tears sideways outside, and artist Kura Te Waru-Rewiri’s gentle voice says she is about to travel to the Hawke’s Bay. One of three esteemed artists judging the inaugural Kīngi Tūheitia Portraiture Awards, she says it’s been a process of digital collaboration to get to a shortlist of 50 entries – she is based in Te Papaioea (Palmerston North) Sir Derek Lardelli is in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne) and Lisa Reihana in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).
After a karakia (prayer) that acknowledges many of the original waka that sailed into Tūranga nui ā Kiwa (Gisborne), we are under way. The crew are local and on our three-hour sunset journey, we hear the stories and history of Gisborne’s tangata whenua, as we sail across the harbour towards the landmark that references the name of the Endeavour’s ship-boy, Young Nick’s Head.
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Gisborne’s waka hourua, Tairāwhiti. Before that moniker, the headland was Te Kurī-a-Pāoa, the lost dog of Pāoa, the captain of the Horouta waka. We glide past stacks of logs from East Coast forests, waiting to be shipped off-shore and a striking circular sculpture by local artist Nick Tupara, on Titirangi/Kaitī Hill, catches the eye.