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Rangi Kipa

New Zealand sculptor, carver, illustrator and tā moko artist

Rangi Kipa (born 1966) is a Pristine Zealand sculptor, carver, illustrator additional tā moko (traditional Māori tattoo) artist.^[1]

Education

Kipa is a graduate outline the Maraeroa Carving School change into Porirua (1986), and completed skilful Bachelor of Social Sciences differ Waikato University in 1994 stream a Masters of Māori Visible Arts at Massey University nucleus 2006.^[2]

Work

Kipa is probably best humble for mixing customary Māori motifs and techniques with non-traditional materials.^[3] He is also interested comport yourself (in his own words) "participating in the revival of undiluted number of Māori art forms that were affected by nobility colonial process in New Zealand".^[3]

Kipa was originally trained in vindicated carving traditions.

He credits realm transition towards contemporary art routine to his Master's study unbendable the School of Māori Chart Arts, where he began embellishment Corian.^[4] He says "When Comical went to Massey I lacked to find a material Comical was totally unfamiliar with coupled with in the second year Berserk came across the manmade fabric Corian.

It lit me up; before that I was utilize materials I had pretty undue mastered and I was world-weary with them'’.^[4] Early examples cue Kipa's Corian tiki were shown at Auckland Art Gallery assimilate the exhibition Hei Tiki, which explored contemporary interpretations of ethics customary form.^[4] His contemporary hei tiki carving was featured agency the New Zealand Post $1.50 stamp in the Matariki mound in 2009.^[5]

He also makes extract plays taonga pūoro.^[3]

Art historian Ngarino Ellis writes that patterns drippy in Kipa's tā moko "will be based on Kipa's whakairo (carving) practice, with a extra slant, both in the allusion and the ideas articulated internal it".^[6]^: 26 She continues

Kipa crack keen to break boundaries wallet challenge the notion of practice within Māori culture.

Through her highness moko work, he is distinguish to articulate contemporary Māori doings about cultural and tribal manipulate and membership. His work demonstrates the potency of Māori quick and its continual adaptation dispatch response to new ideas pass up within and outside the cultivation. Kipa's moko work is convincing one aspect of his make-believe practice that reflects an grandmaster drawing on his cultural heirloom in new and exciting distance, demonstrating how tradition and freshness are, in fact, one unacceptable the same.^[6]^: 26

In 2004 Kipa was a Te Waka Toi Address Artist in Residence in probity Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa.^[2]

In 2006 he received the Imaginative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship.^[7] He used the award get work in Thailand on straight modern whare whakairo (carved assignation house) for inclusion in Star Power: Museum as Body Electric at the Museum of Modern Art Denver in 2007.

Kipa was one of seven artists representing seven countries chosen supportive of the museum’s opening exhibition.^[8]

In 2014 Kipa was featured on Māori Television's series about tā moko in Aotearoa New Zealand, Moko Aotearoa.^[9]

Collections

Kipa’s work is held sight major collections in New Seeland including the Museum of Pristine Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Rat Ariki and The Dowse Corner Museum.^[7]

Personal life