Bridget Reweti | |
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 Reweti at the Venice Biennale Youth Forum in 2017 | |
| Nationality | New Zealander |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Known for | Landscapes and indigenous images |
Bridget Reweti is a New Zealand photographer and moving image artist. [1] [2] Reweti is a member of the artist group Mataaho Collective. [3]
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]
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]
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]
Reweti is of Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi descent, and lives and works in Wellington. [6]
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