Derek Lardelli (Ngāti Konohi, Ngāi Te Aweawe), ‘Untitled’ (1999), College of Education, University of Canterbury, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Image Credit: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021

University of Canterbury

Christchurch College of Education (CCE)

Commerce Building (Rehua), University of Canterbury, Ilam Campus, Ōtautahi Christchurch

Wheki Building, Canterbury College of Education, Dovedale Avenue, Ilam, Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Untitled (Wheki Building)

Derek Lardelli affiliates to the Ngāti Konohi hapū of Ngāti Porou, and the Ngāi Te Aweawe hapū of Rongowhakaata, and lives in Gisborne (Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa), where he is pouwhirinaki/principal lecturer at Toihoukura at Eastern Institute of Technology.

Lardelli is widely known as one of New Zealand's finest tā moko (body art) proponents. He received a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate Award in 2004, and in  2008 was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori arts. In 2020 he was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori art.