Bridget Reweti
Bridget Reweti | |
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| File:Gg-venice-biennale-youth-forum-044 (Bridget Reweti).jpg Reweti at the Venice Biennale Youth Forum in 2017 | |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Known for | Landscapes and indigenous images |
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Bridget Reweti is a New Zealand photographer and moving image artist.[1][2] Reweti is a member of the artist group Mataaho Collective.[3]
Education
[edit | edit source]Reweti holds a Master of Māori Visual Arts from Toioho ki Āpiti, the School of Māori Studies at Massey University.[4] She also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies from Victoria University of Wellington.[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]Reweti works with photography and moving image.[1] Her work explores and subverts New Zealand iconic landscapes, and issues of contemporary indigenous realities.[1][6] Reweti is a member of the Mata Aho Collective, a collaboration of four Māori women artists known for their large scale textile-based installations.[7] She has held numerous residencies in New Zealand and internationally, and her work is held in both private and public collections.[8] Reweti was the 2018 Artist in Residence at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School[8] and was the 2020 Frances Hogkins Fellow.[9]
As well as exhibiting her artwork nationally and internationally, Reweti has worked as at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, the Dowse Art Museum, and as the Exhibitions Officer at Pātaka Art + Museum.[10] Rewati collaborates with Matariki Williams editing ATE Journal of Maori Art.[11]
Exhibitions
[edit | edit source]Reweti has exhibited throughout New Zealand and internationally. Her solo shows include I thought I would of climbed more mountains by now, at Enjoy Gallery in 2015 and Plymouth Arts Centre, U.K. in 2016,[12][13] Tauutuutu at Pātaka Art + Museum in 2016,[14] and Irihanga at Tauranga Art Gallery in 2017.[15]
Her collaboration with Terri Te Tau, Ōtākaro, was presented at The Physics Room in 2016.[6]
With the Mata Aho Collective, she exhibited Te Whare Pora at Enjoy Gallery as part of a 2013 summer Residency.[16][17] In 2017, the Mata Aho Collective was included in Documenta 14, where they presented Kiko Moana, a large scale work rendered in blue tarpaulin mounted in Kassel's regional museum.[3][18]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Reweti is of Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi descent, and lives and works in Wellington.[6]
References
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