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Natalie Robertson
Centring Waiapu—the ancestral river of Ngāti Porou—world-famous for its erosion — much of Natalie’s creative practice and research is based in Te Tai Rāwhiti, her East Coast Ngāti Porou homelands, to advance Māori counter-narratives to settler-colonialism. Natalie is a photographer, moving image artist, writer and Associate Professor at AUT University, Auckland, Aotearoa. In 2022, Natalie graduated with a PhD for her thesis Tātara e maru ana: Renewing ancestral connections with the sacred rain cape of Waiapu Kōkā Hūhua through the University of Auckland. She contributed extensively to the book Hei Taonga Mā Ngā Uri Whakatipu–Treasures for the rising generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919-1923 published (November 2021) by Te Papa Press. Recent exhibitions include Tātara e maru ana—The sacred rain cape of Waiapu at Adam Art Gallery, Wellington April–June 2022; Toi Tū, Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery 2020-21, Hīnaki — Contemplation of a Form at Te Papa Tongarewa 2023-2024, and He Kapuka Oneone—A Handful of Soil at Christchurch Art Gallery, 2024-2026. Natalie is a principal lead in AWA—Artists for Waiapu Action.
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