Hinearangitoariari (Winifred Margaret Belcher, née Foley) is a Māori artist.
Born in
Feilding
Feilding ( mi, Aorangi) is a town in the Manawatū District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 54, 20 kilometres north of Palmerston North. The town is the seat of the Manawatū District Council.
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in 1950, Hinearangitoariari is of Māori (
Te Arawa
Te Arawa is a confederation of Māori iwi and hapu (tribes and sub-tribes) of New Zealand who trace their ancestry to the Arawa migration canoe (''waka'').Uenuku-Kōpako,
Ngāti Pikiao
Ngāti Pikiao is a Māori iwi of New Zealand.
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,
Ngāti Whakaue
Ngāti Whakaue is a Māori iwi, of the Te Arawa confederation of New Zealand. The tribe lives in the Rotorua district and descends from the Arawa waka. The Ngāti Whakaue village Ōhinemutu is within the township of Rotorua.
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) and Irish descent.
Art
Hinearangitoariari is best known for her 8m long mural ''Karanga'' which was commissioned for and installed in the
Aotea Centre
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on public view between 1990 and 2003. Intricately detailed, the painting features 12 major groupings of birds arranged to depict the 12 notes of a
chromatic scale
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. Intertwined among birds and trees are aspects of Māori folklore based on the legends of
Tāne
In Māori mythology, Tāne (also called Tāne-mahuta, Tāne-nui-a-Rangi, and several other names) is the god of forests and of birds, and the son of Ranginui and Papatūānuku, the sky father and the earth mother, who used to lie in a tight em ...
. Hinearangitoariari worked on the painting for 10 months.
In 1992, Hinerangitoariari was named
Palmerston North
Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the ...
's first artist in residence as part of the Te Marae o Hine residency programme. Her project for this residency was entitled ''The 12 Heavens'', and built on the thematic imagery of ''Karanga''.
In 2003, ''Karanga'' was moved into storage due to an upgrade of the convention centre. The custodial owners of the work ''Karanga'' are
Ngāti Whātua
Ngāti Whātua is a Māori iwi (tribe) of the lower Northland Peninsula of New Zealand's North Island. It comprises a confederation of four hapū (subtribes) interconnected both by ancestry and by association over time: Te Uri-o-Hau, Te Roroa, Te ...
, and in 2005 the University of Auckland's Faculty of Engineering secured a loan of the artwork and displayed it in the School of Engineering main foyer. Hinearangitoariari's brother is a graduate of the Faculty of Engineering.
Group shows
''Whenua Ora / Upon the Land'' at
Waikato Museum
Waikato Museum ( mi, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato) is a regional museum located in Hamilton, New Zealand. The museum manages ArtsPost, a shop and gallery space for New Zealand art and design. Both are managed by the Hamilton City Council. Outside ...
, 2015.
''Te Karohirohinga Taonga, Māori art from the Community'' at
Waikato Museum
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, 1995. Hinerangitoariari exhibited four works on a creation theme - ''Io'', ''Whero'', ''Nga Wha'' and ''Tane''.
''Kohia ko Taikaka Anake'' at the
National Art Gallery
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*Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
*National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
The Americas
*Galería Nacional, San Juan, Puerto ...
, 1990. At the time, this was the largest exhibition of Māori art to date.
Personal life
Hinearangitoariari was born in the power substation village of Bunnythorpe, and her father Alf Foley was a generation engineer. The nearby
Mangahao Power Station
Mangahao Power Station is a hydroelectric power station near the town of Shannon, New Zealand. After being delayed by war, access road construction and foundation testing was started by late 1919 and the station opened in November 1924. It makes ...
was built in the same year her father was born - 1924. In 2003, Hinerangitoariari moved to Mangaore Village, close to where she grew up.