Whakaraupō Carving Centre Trust

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Kia ora kōutou, throughout the Ngahuru / Autumn and Takurua / Winter months our carvers have been working with a group of visual artists from Hōhepa Canterbury who have all created to a theme which they identified as a collective at our first wānanaga.

'Te Wharekai o Hōhepa' is an exhibition which showcases, in creative expression, individual creative pieces where as a collective the artists identified what each artist's 'kaupapa / theme would be informing their creative mahi. Each piece represents a quality that the group collecxtively identified with each of the artists.
'Te Wharekai o Hōhepa' on the Hōhepa Barrington Street site, will house the creative works on show, leaving legacies for themselves in a space they deem significant in their place.

Te Wharekai o Hōhepa opens at 10am on Thursday the 2nd July. The exhibition will run up until the 8th July. Nau mai haere kōutou!!

Kia ora kōutou, throughout the Ngahuru / Autumn and Takurua / Winter months our carvers have been working with a group of visual artists from Hōhepa Canterbury who have all created to a theme which they identified as a collective at our first wānanaga.

'Te Wharekai o Hōhepa' is an exhibition which showcases, in creative expression, individual creative pieces where as a collective the artists identified what each artist's 'kaupapa / theme would be informing their creative mahi. Each piece represents a quality that the group collecxtively identified with each of the artists.
'Te Wharekai o Hōhepa' on the Hōhepa Barrington Street site, will house the creative works on show, leaving legacies for themselves in a space they deem significant in their place.

Te Wharekai o Hōhepa opens at 10am on Thursday the 2nd July. The exhibition will run up until the 8th July. Nau mai haere kōutou!!

Kia ora koutou - We are now taking enrolements for our next 12-week kaupapa Māori toi programme, Whatu Kura Toi, which focuses on the six Toi Principles that inform Māori creative practice. Using whakairo as a visual marker, the mātauranga presented can be applied to any creative practice. This kaupapa will commence on Tuesday July 28th 2026.
Whatu Kura Toi is delivered fully online with fortnightly tutorials. To participate you will need a computer or device and connection to the internet.
If you are interested in enrolling or if you should have any pātai / questions please email Damian at [email protected] or visit www.whakaraupocarving.maori.nz
Ngā Mihi

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Kia Ora kōutou - throughout the first term of 2026 we had the pleasure of delivering a creative kaupapa for our whānau at Canterbury where participants designed, undertook personal rangahau / research, creating their own patu and plinths which represented their whakapapa / relationships that are important to them.
Mauri Ora

Nau mai haere mai kōutou ❤️🤍🖤

Nau mai haere mai!!

Kia ora kōutou, we are excited to present Rei whānau member and local artist Jacob Chick who is presenting his creative exhibition 'Into the 4th Dimension' which opens at Te Whare o Rei on Friday the 8th May 2026 at 6pm.

Jacobs's creative mahi represents his whakaaro through his creative works which informs his methods and processes in his creative practice. As a founding member of the Rei Collective Jacob has a unique way of creating which informs ways in which we can utilise contemporary methods and materials in creative practice.

Nau Mai haere mai kōtou, all welcome!!

Kia Ora kōtou , we recently had the pleasure of delivering our 17th Toi Aro -5 day programme, supporting our rangatahi through a journey to know and stand in their mana.
Toi Aro is whakairo principle to guide us through our self- reflection processes. To have mindfulness of egoic v intuitive thoughts and mindsets, and to be self critical to ensure be accurate and put in effort and purpose in what we do and how we present ourselves to be the best versions of a human we can be.

To be an ancestor our descendants deserve ❤️🤍🖤💎🧬🫀🔥⛰️🦎

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Talofa
I lou toga`la`au - In my Garden

I believe that every bloom has a spiritual and emotional connection of a memory to a particular time, place or person in life.
For me, this is my Tama` (father).
Watching my Tama` spend endless hours in the garden introduced me to an unlimited palette of colours and scent.

Culturally flowers in the Pacific Islands are used as decoration but are deeply ingrained in daily life, ceremony identity and medicinal purposes.
I love how over time cultural and personal interpretations of flowers have different meanings.

Recently, discovering Floriography (the language of flowers) I was drawn to the art of communication that was popularized in the 19th century. This cryptic code allowed for silent, symbolic conversations through the type, colour and arrangement of blooms.

Gravitating to landscapes and Florals, I find it to be a natural and freeing process of expression.

In My Garden the intention is to find beauty in the small things!

Alofa atu Leni

"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream" Van gogh