Maureen Robin LanderMNZM (born 1942 in Rawene) is a New Zealand weaver, multimedia installation artist and academic. She is of Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Irish, Scottish and English (Yorkshire) descent.[1] Lander is a well-respected and significant Māori artist who since 1986 has exhibited, photographed, written and taught Māori art.[2] She continues to produce and exhibit work as well as attend residencies and symposia both nationally and internationally.[3]
New Zealand weaver, multimedia installation artist and academic
Lander began learning weaving with noted Māori weaver Diggeress Te Kanawa in 1984 and spent many years researching fibre arts.[2] The title of her 1993 master's thesis was In Sites: the predicament of place: personal perspectives and intercultural viewpoints on aspects of site related art.[4] In 2002 she was the first person of Māori descent to gain a Doctorate in Fine Arts at a New Zealand university.[5]
1963 Wellington Teachers' College
1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
1989 Bachelor of Arts in Māori Studies, University of Auckland
1993 Masters of Fine Arts (Sculpture), First Class Honours, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland[6]
2002 Doctor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland[7]
Career as an educator
Waipapa Marae at Auckland University next to the Māori department and where some Māori studies teaching takes place.
Lander worked as a teacher before attending Elam School of Fine Arts.[1] From 1986 she worked as a photographer for the University of Auckland's Department of Anthropology.[5] She taught Māori fibre arts over many years, mainly in the Māori Studies Department at the University of Auckland where she was a Senior Lecturer in Māori Material Culture. In 2007 she retired from university lecturing.[2]
Work
Lander was first introduced to muka (flax fibre) by noted weaver Diggeress Te Kanawa in 1984, when she went to stay several times with the senior artist at Ohaki Maori village, near Waitomo and learned the basics of preparing materials and techniques such as whatu (finger twining).[8] Her end of year installation at Elam, titled Te Kohanga Harakeke ('The Flax Nest') included a structure covered in milled flax in the shape of a massive inverted nest, which sheltered a young harakeke (flax) plant.[8]
Lander's first public art exhibition was as part of the group exhibition Karanga Karanga at the Fisher Gallery (now Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga, Auckland) in 1986.[8] She describes her three decades working with muka as a 'journey of discovery'.[2] In a recent artist statement Lander said:
I was seduced by the beauty and magic of muka. My first public installation in 1986 – E kore koe e ngaro he kakano i ruia mai i Rangiatea in the Karanga, Karanga exhibition – featured whenu (warp threads) and aho (weft threads) that I had carefully prepared to make my first korowai. Instead, I suspended them in an ethereal cloud-like formation over a swirl of flax seed.[2]
In 1998 art historian Priscilla Pitts wrote that Lander's combination of 'conventional university art school' study and training with traditional Māori weavers was reflected in her work:
Though much of her work is a response to weaving arts, Lander seldom actually weaves – at least, in the works she exhibits in gallery spaces. Rather, she uses, often to astonishing effect, the materials used in traditional Maori weaving and dying. These include pingao and feathers, but most of all harakeke (New Zealand flax) in all its forms – its leaves, its handsome flower and seed heads, the seeds and muka (the fine silky fibre obtained from the leaves). With these she combines materials from the Western world.[9]:103
Pitts gives Lander's 1994 work This is not a kete, made for the exhibition Art Now at the former Museum of New Zealand (now the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) as an example of the way her work combines traditional Māori crafts and Western sculptural or installation practices.[9]:104–5 Lander's work plays on René Magritte's famous painting Ceci n'est pas une pipe with a woven kete (flax basket) placed on top of a plinth with the words 'This is not a kete' inscribed on it. More kete were arranged on the floor of the gallery and dramatically lit. Pitts writes
'Here, in the context of the art exhibition, 'practical' objects – simple woven flax bags – are elevated to the status of art objects. ... However, this particular art exhibition was located in what was also an ethnography and history museum, within which the collection, cataloguing, and display of things like kete divorces them from their cultural, spiritual and/or utilitarian contexts and transforms them into artefacts.[9]:104
In 2006 Lander was one of fifteen New Zealand artists, most of Māori and Pacific Island descent, who were invited to take part in the Pasifika Styles exhibition by making site-specific works throughout the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge that responded to objects in the museum's collection.[10] For the exhibition Lander reworked two previous commissions, This is not a kete and pieces from Mrs Cook's kete, a 2002 collaboration with Christine Hellyar at the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University.[11] Lander also made new pieces, including the site-specific installations Airy-Theory Artefacts (woven objects suspended in front of a screened window) and Tane Raises His Eyebrows (a crescent-shaped weaving placed over a decorative wooden door lintel).[10]:25,61 She also made a piece titled Crown Grab Bag for the exhibition, a large woven crown placed on a royal purple silk pillow with gold tassels. In the publication accompanying the exhibition, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology curator Anita Herle wrote
The work references the New Zealand Foreshore and Seabed Act of 2004, which empowered the New Zealand government, 'the Crown', to override tribal rights to pursue customary claims to the foreshore and seabed through the courts. Lander's crown is delicately woven from a variety of fibres, including plant materials that grow along the foreshore – the creation of the crown itself is thus a subtle but defiant act of re-appropriation. Shells and fishing hooks from the museum's collection are placed on the base of the case. Strands of pingao fibre, stitched into the fabric lining at the back of the case, form inverted U-shapes representing the raised eyebrows of Tane (god of the forest). According to Māori legend, following a dispute between Tane and Tangaroa (god of the sea) Tane's eyebrows were flung onto the sand dunes, which mark the liminal space between the forest and the sea. Here Lander connects contemporary political conflicts to legendary battles.[10]:66–67
Responding to objects and taonga held in cultural institutions' collections remains a strong feature of Lander's work. In a 2015 exhibition at the National Library of New Zealand (a collaboration with Christine Hellyar and Jo Torr) Lander made a number of works relating to works in the library's art and archival collections.[12] Her piece Hariata’s War Garb is inspired by Joseph Merrett's 1846 watercolour The Warrior Chieftains of New Zealand.[13] The portrait depicts Hone Heke, the chief Kawiti, and Heke's wife Hariata. Hariata is shown wearing a woven sash unlike anything Lander had seen before. Researching her own family history, Lander found descriptions of Hariata written by her great-great grandfather James Johnston Fergusson. One document describes Hariata leading 700 men; another as being ‘young, tall, and rather goodlooking’, wearing ‘a tartan dress with red sash slung around her shoulders like a shepherd’s plaid’. Lander recreated the sash for the exhibition, along with a number of other pieces.[12][14] In a review of the exhibition art historian Jill Trevelyan noted that Lander drew on her own experience learning weaving under Diggeress Te Kanawa to produce the works Rongo's samplers, a reimagining of the first works produced by a new practitioner.[15]
Selected exhibitions
Lander began exhibiting her artwork in 1986.[16] Having exhibited both nationally and internationally, Lander currently enjoys exhibiting with other artists in the small communities around the Hokianga where her ancestors lived.[2]
2018 Hariata’s War Garb (part of The Ngāpuhi Festival), Northcote College, Auckland
2017 Flat-Pack Whakapapa, The Dowse Art Museum and touring throughout 2018;[17]The Delicate Balance of Wobbling Stars, Corban Estate Art Centre[18]
2015 Te Wā Tōiri: Fluid Horizons, Auckland Art Gallery: an exhibition from the collections of the gallery including Lander's major installation work Hou Angiangi (2003). The Māori title of the exhibition was suggested by Lander.;[19]Tell tails, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, with Christine Hellyar and Jo Torr[20]
2014 Flag It, The Depot, Devonport and No 1, Parnell St Gallery, Rawene [21]
2013 Towards the Morning Sun Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney;[3]whetu-whenu-whenua Lopdell House Gallery (off-site), Titirangi[22]
2012 Kahu Ora/Living Cloaks Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa[2]
2011 An Ephemeral Practice Northart Gallery, Te Taumata series, Auckland Matariki Festival [23]
2010 Site specific fibre installation, Arataki Visitor Centre, Waitakere Regional Park, Auckland;[24]Where are we? Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi [24]
2009 Hotere Country Village Arts, Kohukohu, Hokianga;[25]Kauwae 09Mangere Arts Centre, Nathan Homestead, Manurewa and Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne[26]
2008 POST-Stitch Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi[27]
2005 Palm Lines in collaboration with Samuel Wagan Watson and Anne Kirker Museum of Brisbane[30]
2004–2005 Shade House in collaboration with Robert Sullivan and Briar Wood, Whangarei Art Museum, Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi, and Pataka Art + Museum[31]
2004–2007 The Eternal Thread: Te Aho Mutunga Kore Pataka Museum + Art, Porirua, then touring to venues in NZ and United States[32]
Lander, M.R., Sullivan, R, & Wood, B. Shade House Whangarei: Whangarei Art Museum, 2004
Lander, M.R. & Maihi, T. He Kete He Korero Auckland: Reed Publishing, 2005
Lander, M. R. 'Te Ao Tawhito/Te Ao Hou. Entwined Threads of Tradition and Innovation' in Whatu Kakahu/Māori Cloaks (ed. Awhina Tamarapa), Wellington: Te Papa Press 2011, pp.60–73 ISBN9781877385568
Honours and awards
2020 Appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori art, in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours[41]
2019 Ngā Tohu ā Tā Kingi Ihaka | Sir Kingi Ihaka Awards recognising lifetime contribution, Te Waka Toi Awards[42]
2002 Inaugural Māori Academic Excellence Award (Fine Arts, Music & Performing Arts), ‘Te Tohu Toi Ururangi’ sponsored by Toi Maori.
1992 Graduate Scholarship, University of Auckland
1985 Senior Prize in Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
1984 Annual Prize in Māori Studies, University of Auckland
Residencies
2013 Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.
2010 ARC Artist-in-Parks residency, Titirangi.
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Parramatta Artists’ Studios, West Sydney.
2009 Hancock Fellow at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne.
2006 Pasifika Styles at CUMAA.
2006 Kilmartin House Museum in Scotland
2002 Artist in Residence, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson.
1996 The Performance Space Centre, Redfern, Sydney.
Lander, Maureen (1993), In Sites: the predicament of place: personal perspectives and intercultural viewpoints on aspects of site related art, ResearchSpace@Auckland, hdl:2292/5323, WikidataQ111963236
Pitts, Priscilla (Autumn 2019). "Her Story: Maureen Lander in Conversation with Priscilla Pitts". Art New Zealand (169): 46–53.
Pitts, Priscilla (1998). Contemporary New Zealand sculpture: themes and issues. Auckland: David Bateman Ltd. ISBN1869531698.
Raymond, Rosanna; Salmond, Amiria (2008). Pasifika Styles. Cambridge and Dunedin: University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Otago University Press. ISBN978-0947595159.
"Tell Tails". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
"Flag it!". Depot Art Space. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
Willis, Kenny (2013). Whetū, Whenu, Whenua: Stars, Strands, Land – A Contemporary approach to weaving. Auckland: Lopdell House Gallery. ISBN9780987659767.
Morrow, Margaret; O'Sullivan, Vincent; Lander, Maureen (2009). Hotere Country: An exhibition featuring Ralph Hoter's 'Song of Solomon'. Hokianga: Village Arts. ISBN9780473156541.
Kauwau Group (2009). Kauwae 09: a series of three exhibitions from the Kauwae Group, a national collective of Māori women artists. Manukau: Kauwae Group.
Packer, Ann (2008). POST stitch: an exhibition of contemporary New Zealand stitched work. Waitakere: Lopdell House Gallery. ISBN9780958289535.
Reed, Michael; Stevenson, Karen (2009). Conversations Across Time: Whakawhiti Körero. Christchurch: Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology. ISBN9780908668724.
Raymond, Rosanna; Salmond, Amiria (2008). Pasifika Styles: Artists inside the museum. Dunedin: Otago University Press. ISBN978-1-877372-60-5.
Lander, Maureen; Wood, Brian; Sullivan, Robert (2004). Shade House. Whangarei: Whangarei Art Museum. ISBN0958252300.
Evans, Miriama; Ngarimu, Ranui; Heke, Norm (2005). The art of Māori weaving: the eternal thread = te aho mutunga kore. Wellington: Huia Publishers. ISBN186969161X.
Hellyar, Christine; Lander, Maureen (2002). Mrs Cook's kete: artists' installation at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 2 November 2002 to 27 April 2003. Oxford, England: Pitt Rivers Museum.
Mason, Ngahiraka; Ellis, Ngarino; Kisler, Mary (2001). Purangiaho: seeing clearly: casting light on the legacy of tradition in contemporary Maori art. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery. ISBN0864632452.
Lander, Maureen; Maihi, Toi Te Rito; TwoTrees, Kaylynn (1998). Haze: Maureen Lander, Toi Te Rito Maihi, Kaylynn TwoTrees. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery. ISBN0864632215.
Lander, Maureen; Pitts, Priscilla (1998). Maureen Lander: ngā uri o r̄ahiri: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 25 October 1997 – 16 February 1998. New Plymouth: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. ISBN0908848242.
Hubbard, George; Johnston, Alexa; Jahnke, Robert (1996). Korurangi: New Māori Art. Auckland: Auckland Art gallery. ISBN086463210X.
Sayles, Jane (1994–1995). "In Search of Wonderland: Art Now at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". Art New Zealand. 73: 62–65.
Te Ao, Ngapine Tamihana (Spring 1993). "Pu Manawa: The Heart on the Margins". Art New Zealand. 68: 58–61.
"Alter/Image". City Gallery Wellington. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
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