A catalogue of works for Awhetia - Te Rautini + Harete showing at Mīharo Murihiku Gallery - 28 Don St, Waihopai 9810 from Nov 21st 2025 - Feb 20th 2026. For all purchase enquires email kheelan@miharo.org or send a message through the contact form here.
Title - “Awhetia” (Collab piece by both Te Rautini and Harete)
Medium - Woodblock print on harakeke paper, printed with harakeke seed pods
Size - A3 x 9
Description - Based on the patterns of coral, an important part of our marine eco-system and ultimately our earth. It also represents the many landscapes and rivers we’ve experienced in Aotearoa and around the world over the last four years, as seen from the sky above.
Price - $320 per print (sold individually only)
Te Rautini -Artwork
Title - Manu Tukutopa
Materials - Reclaimed kauri, mixed native timber, bike reflector cap
Description - Manu Tukutopa is a fusion of the traditional manu tangata and a drone, or waka topatopa. The purpose of a drone is for surveillance and this was the original purpose of the ‘manu tangata’. Ironically, they are similar in design. They were sleek with an exaggerated wingspan. They had a head and torso much like the kapowai or dragonfly. This similarity interested me which influenced my decision to fuse these two manu species creating Manu Tukutopa.
The surface whakarei / patterning on the face reminds me of industry. There are names used for this patterning, whakaironui or taowaru depending on where you come from. I chose this pattern because of what it looked like and the fusion of the manu tukutuku and the drone.
The wings are adorned with koru relief and the legs, the rear wing system of a drone, are adorned with nihoniho taniwha motifs indicating resilience and daring during troubling times, its reference to the purpose of surveillance or attack.
The classical carving and the machine router wing system examines the juxtaposition between the industrial age and the old world.
Price - $5,790
Pūkāea II
Medium - Blown glass, pōhutukawa wood, cord, stainless steel
Description - Pūkāea II is based on the Māori traditional wind instrument the trumpet. They were used to send messages to neighbouring villages with some messages being heard many miles away. Over 10 years ago I pursued glass as a medium and with taonga puoro, I wanted to compare the sound of wood, to the sound of glass. This work is an extension of that pursuit. There were six other artists who helped create this work at the CollaboratioNZ Whangārei event earlier this year. I’ve been attending Collabs around the world for over 10 years and working with others to create art, has opened my eyes to the endless opportunities with my creativity.
Price - $1,970
Title - Wai-ō-Rua
Medium - Digital Print on Art Paper - Edition of 20 prints
Description - This print I created during a five week artists residency held in Banff, Canada in September this year. It is a fusion of ancient rock art from Canada and of Aotearoa. Featuring the buffalo, wheku and medicine people, my goal was to fuse examples of motifs found on rock faces of the Northern Tribes of Canada and some of our examples.
After hearing about the spiritual connection of the buffalo from our indigenous artists, deeper studies of wheku, showed remarkable similarities. Wai-o-Rua, the waters of Rua (Rua Tupua, Rua Tawhito are some of my founding ideologies). Orua, (o-Rua), as a matter of coincidence, or harmony. With these thoughts and ‘Wairua’ Two Waters, or spirit, Wai-o-Rua was born.
Price framed $320 unframed - $170
Wheku Glass Print
Medium - slumped plate glass print
Description - During our orientation of the Banff facilities I came across the magazine Printmaking Today. I opened the magazine and the first article I read was titled Glass Printing. Fascinated by this revelation that you could print make using glass I decided to explore further. My faculty mentors were equally enthused and after three attempts together we succeeded at printing our first glass print. This is the 1st print of 2. Only one available.
Price - $1170 (SOLD)
Wheku Print
Medium - woodblock print, acrylic ink on harakeke paper (framed)
Description - During my 35 years living in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa I was in awe of the carvings in the wharenui in and around the Tairawhiti, East Coast. This wheku, or mask pays homage to the imagery and stories embedded within the whakairo narrative of the Tairawhiti. The surface design is raperape, the rippling effects of force, whether it be the ripples on water, or sound waves of taonga puoro. These designs were the very first that I learnt when I started carving.
Price - $279 Framed (SOLD)
Title - Tātai Hono
Medium - Linoleum Print (unframed) on art paper
Description - created in Rarotonga in 2024, it depicts the hononga - the connection of Aotearoa Māori to Rarotonga. This design is a visual representation of two cultures coming together, ‘tātai hono’ under the kaupapa of toi / art.
Price - $279
Title - Anakoha
Medium - Linoleum Print on art paper (framed)
Description - At the start of our travels we spent a month in Anakoha, in the Marlborough Sounds. While there we made art and exhibited to the people who lived close by. Having full access to the Anakoha inlet we often set out on a little boat fishing for blue cod. On another outing we were taken out to the cut between Forsyth Island and Anakoha. Here we hooked onto some big fish but never landed any. I like to think the fish were laughing. This print is a reflection of our time there, full of adventure, art, relaxation and a lot of fishing!
Price - $259 - framed (SOLD)
Title - Mata Pātaka
Medium - Carved MDF, Metallic Spray Paint
Description - This pātaka is the master mold to eventually cast into glass. The glass pātaka is currently in Takapuna for Sculpture on the Shore, an event to raise funds for Women’s Refuge. Mata Pātaka or the facade of the pātaka is based on the Motunui Epa. This pre-European carved facade of five panels was found in a swamp in the early 70’s and was promptly sold to overseas collectors and placed in a purpose made vault. The new owner, George Ortiz’s daughter was kidnapped and $2m was needed for the ransom. He decided to put the epa up for sale at auction. Our government of the time found out, and representatives were sent to have them returned. It took over 30 years for this to happen.
The Motunui Epa now stands in the Puke Ariki museum, Ngāmotu.They are stunning, and ever since reading that these carvings were in someone’s vault on the other side of the world I wanted to tell its illuminating story, hence the glass.
The steel rusting away as it ages with the kōkōwai colour streaking down the faces depicts the blood, sweat and tears required in its carving, the care of the pātaka in the village and also the care that George Ortiz showed towards this treasure. The steely blue gaffer glass depicts its journey across the ocean, the placement within a controlled storage vault and its return flight home. This industrial idea is a deliberate act in direct contrast to the natural original treasure. Technology only goes so far, but originality lasts.
NFS - Display only
Title - Nīkau
Medium - photo image of nīkau on harakeke paper (framed).
Description - Grays Bush just out of Gisborne is a remnant forest and includes native trees, some over 500 years old. The bush has a beautiful gathering of nīkau where the natural light creates beams of light through foliage, a moment I had to capture. Nīkau on harakeke paper made by Harete.
Price - $170 - framed - only one available. (SOLD)
Title - Hey Tiki!
Medium - Recycled Plastic Print (framed)
Description - Finding a piece of soft perspex suitable for relief work I created Hey Tiki. Here, Tiki is rallying their fellow tiki tribal members, seeking support for losing control over their cultural identity. Tiki has been appropriated in just about every capacity you can identify and this work is a play on that.
Price - $259
Title - “Whekī”
Medium - Photograph Print on Harakeke Paper (framed)
Description - Driving through Mōkau, a small coastal town in the King Country looking back toward Taranaki maunga, this crop of whekī trees were silhouetted by the setting sun. Printed on harakeke paper by Harete.
Price - $170.00 framed (SOLD) print only $100
Title - Te Tuhi Tawhito a Rauru
Medium - Recycled harakeke paper (made by Harete), cotton, abaca and cattail (Canada), black printing ink.
Description - Inspired by our ancient drawings and carvings on rock faces in South Taranaki, this print tells the story of Ngā Rauru settlement. These remnants of our earliest arts practice offer an insight into the minds of our creatives. The ancient markings of Rauru.
Price - $290
Harete - Artwork
He Rau Kawakawa
Medium - Digital Art Print on art paper - framed
Size - 626mm x 626mm
Price - $700
Description
A work that sits above the mauri stone for the exhibition and brings our tūpuna / ancestors into the space. Created from a photographic image of a kawakawa leaf.
remembering
heart beats of ancient ones
medicinal earth
“He Rau Harakeke”
Medium - Photographic image on canvas (framed)
Size - 871mm x 624mm
Price - $700
Description - I’ve been making harakeke paper for over 30 years and I’m still learning about this plant. Out of all the native trees I’ve captured with my lens, this has by far been the most photographed.
When you grow your pā harakeke for many years and you see it grow and change through the seasons, you notice things. Photography is an art form for me and also a way of documenting and observing over time. I would rather photograph, than take notes of my observations! And I have been practicing committing to memory everything I observe and see.
“Harakeke Light”
Medium - Photographic Image of harakeke on canvas (framed)
Size - 871mm x 524mm
Price $700
Description - This image shows many parts of the harakeke plant that I create colour from. As a dye, harakeke is the most giving of all the plants. All parts give colour; roots, stalk, seeds, seedpods, leaves, flowers. And in between growth stages a colour can be found - before a flower opens and after, when a pod is green or black and in between. I’ve created seven different colours just from this plant and I’m sure there are more. It is exceptional. You will see some of those colours in the handmade artworks I’ve created on harakeke paper.
“Kōrari Silhouette”
Medium - Photographic image on canvas (framed)
Size - 594mm x 594mm
Description - As a photographer, I’m always looking for that special light. And over the years, harakeke has provided me with many beautiful photo opportunities. The photos I share with this exhibition are a handful of thousands I’ve taken over 30 years and at least half of them have been of native trees, including harakeke. And the kōrari always make me smile.
Price - $700
“Hineahuone”
Photographic image of harakeke on enhanced matte paper, gold frame, anti reflective glass
Size - 446mm x 620mm
Description - Harakeke is an amazing plant, always giving and every time I am in conversation with it, I am learning. This image is a photo of the take (base) of the harakeke after a leaf was harvested. When I first saw this I thought wow, ko au te harakeke, ko te harakeke ko au! I am the harakeke and the harakeke is me! And then when the gel emerged after I had cut, it was a profound moment for me.
As a papermaker, I never add size to my harakeke paper. It doesn’t need it. The gel at the bottom of the plant acts as a natural glue that adds to the already strong fibre that makes beautiful paper as you will see around the gallery.
This work is the reo pōhiri, the welcoming voice for this exhibition, just as the women’s voice is the first we hear on the marae, Hineahuone welcomes us into the space.
Price - $700
Title - Whakapapa
Medium - Photographic image of a harakeke bush printed on to harakeke paper with harakeke seed pods + a little tītī oil
Description - I’ve created a pā harakeke (whakapapa) with each of these prints and when I think of the pā harakeke I remember the many pā harakeke I’ve nurtured over the years and the pā harakeke I grew for 12 years at our home in Tūranganui a Kiwa. Each plant is part of the whānau, but also unique. When printing these (and when I eventually got the right harakeke ink), many different plants emerged even though they were from the same image!
Price - $270 per print - edition of 20 only
Te Kore I & Te Kore II
Medium - Original artworks created with native tree colours (harakeke flowers, harakeke pods, koromiko, toatoa) on handmade harakeke paper.
Price $1700 each
Te Kore - a space of nothingness, where all potential lives.
I’ve placed these two works in the entrance space as they are significant for me in terms of what they represent. The circle / koru / spiral has always been present in my work, there are many you will see throughout the exhibition. And te kore is a space / place of healing I’ve been working with for many years. Te Ao Māori has some beautiful healing pathways and this space of te kore is one of them.
I love that these works are 100% native. This has been a journey for me over the past five years - to create work that at any time can be returned to the earth. Working with our natives is a remembering of what was once here. Reclaiming our reo through our trees - their beauty, healing for land and people and their colour!
I also decided back then that I would no longer put my handmade paper works behind glass. I want the works to breathe because they are plants, but also, I want people to experience the colour, texture and beauty of the work. You can’t experience that when the work is behind glass.
Me tōngai harakeke
Medium - Original artwork on harakeke paper created with colour from harakeke (pods & flowers), toatoa, koromiko, kōkōwai (Taranaki maunga), napuka.
Description - “Me tōngai harakeke” speaks of the harakeke as a rākau that stands strong in all weather - resilient, giving, beautiful. Tō is another word for the stalk of the plant (as well as ‘to plant’) and while I share the kōrari / flax flower in parts of this work, this speaks for all our native trees. It is also about being brave, and if you know harakeke and it’s roots, they can be a bugger to dig up! They hold on, which is great for the whenua, not so great if you’re cleaning your harakeke plants!
When we plant our trees, we bring to life their meaning - our language, our whenua and who we are. I see a kākahu of rākau here in this work. A whakapapa that reaches deep into the earth.
And I really wanted to highlight the beauty of our native trees and their colour! All these colours are from our native trees and a touch of home with kōkōwai from my maunga Taranaki which seems to always find it’s way to me, no matter how far away from home I am.
Price - $2200
Title - Pukapuka Bound
Size - 140mm x 220mm x 20mm
Medium - Handmade Pukapuka - pages handmade from a variety of plants including harakeke, cedar bark, cattail, abaca, cotton, spruce, bound with wax thread & muka dyed with raurekau - 25 leaves, 50 pages.
Description - A handmade, handbound book created as a journal or keepsake for writing, sketching, saving memories.
Price - $490
Title - Pukapuka Unbound
Size - 140mm x 220mm x 20mm
Medium - Handmade Pukapuka - pages handmade from a variety of plants including harakeke, cedar bark, cattail, abaca, cotton, spruce, bound with wax thread, embellished with a muka tie & thick cedar bark paper - 25 leaves, 50 pages
My love of books is two fold. I love reading, writing and holding a book in my hand. The flip side is that we are an oral people and we never wrote in books. So the pages of this book are not bound, but they’re allowed to emerge from the book structure and be made into something - writing, sculpting, they can fold and unfold, they can be used singularly or together. The other book on display is bound and acts as a journal, a book to share memories and stories, or just to enjoy the beautiful handmade pages.
Price - $490
Koru Tahi
Medium - Original Artwork on handmade paper (cattail, cotton, abaca) created with fresh harakeke flowers, toatoa, harakeke
Description - The koru is a strong feature in my work. Because it is derived from nature it tells my stories and it tells my ancestors’ stories. Our Māori language is very poetic and this word has many meanings. It makes reference to the rippling vibrations that are seen and felt when a stone touches water. Or an earthquake that sends ripples over the land.
The koru form is healing and it is balance - it’s shape flows in and flows out… These works are fun - highlighting both form, the handmade paper and colours of our native trees. It also challenges aspects of design and how we “should” create our art according to a system of design. All my art is intuitive, there is nothing that is planned. Size - A4
Price - $190
Koru Rua
Medium - Original Artwork on handmade paper (recycled harakeke, cattail, cotton, abaca) created with harakeke pods
Description - The koru is a strong feature in my work. Because it is derived from nature it tells my stories and it tells my ancestors’ stories. Our Māori language is very poetic and this word has many meanings. It makes reference to the rippling vibrations that are seen and felt when a stone touches water. Or an earthquake that sends ripples over the land.
The koru form is healing and it is balance - it’s shape flows in and flows out… These works are fun - highlighting both form, the handmade paper and colours of our native trees. It also challenges aspects of design and how we “should” create our art according to a system of design. All my art is intuitive, there is nothing that is planned. Size - A4
Price $190
Koru Toru
Medium - Original Artwork on handmade paper (cedar bark, cattail, abaca, harakeke) created with native trees - koromiko, harakeke, toatoa + kōkōwai Taranaki maunga
Size - A4
Price $190 (SOLD)
Description - The koru is a strong feature in my work. Because it is derived from nature it tells my stories and it tells my ancestors’ stories. Our Māori language is very poetic and this word has many meanings. It makes reference to the rippling vibrations that are seen and felt when a stone touches water. Or an earthquake that sends ripples over the land.
The koru form is healing and it is balance - it’s shape flows in and flows out… These works are fun - highlighting both form, the handmade paper and colours of our native trees. It also challenges aspects of design and how we “should” create our art according to a system of design. All my art is intuitive, there is nothing that is planned.
Gift Cards
Description - Each gift card has been created by Harete. There are six harakeke photo images and one circle design He Rau Kawakawa, that also features in the exhibition. Comes with envelopes.
Size - 140mm x 140mm square
Price - $5 each or Set of seven different cards - $30
