Te Hekenga Mai

1999

Saffronn Te Ratana

Ngataiharuru Taepa

Accessible

Type

  • Painting

Medium

  • Acrylic paint
  • Canvas

Dimensions

  • H815 x W5515mm

Saffronn Te Ratana (Ngāi Tuhoe) & Ngataiharuru Taepa (Te Ati Awa, Te Arawa), ‘Te Hekenga Mai’ (1999), Massey University, Turitea Campus, Te Papa-i-oea Palmerston North

Images: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2022

1999–Current

Rm 2.26, level 2 of Library, Massey University, Turitea Campus, Te Papa-i-oea Palmerston North

Artists
Credit

Massey University Art Collection

Associated Artwork Organisation(s)

Description

Painting is installed as a frieze. Composed in sea/water like colours, a rippled band travels across a pattern of upward pointing triangles in green. One upwelling of the ripple on the left is picked out in red/orange.