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Areta wilkinson nga ringa toi o tahu
Areta Rachael Wilkinson (b 1969) is a New Zealand jeweller of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Irakehu and Ngāti Wheke descent.
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- Areta wilkinson nga ringa toi o tahu
- Areta wilkinson nga ringa toi o tahu teaser
- Education
- Career
- Recognition
- Selected Exhibitions
- Further information
- References
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Education
In 1991 Wilkinson received a Diploma in Craft Design and in 2001 she completed a Bachelor of Design from Unitec Institute of Technology, where she studied under the esteemed Pauline Bern. In 2014 she completed a PhD in Fine Arts at Te Pūtahi-ā-Toi School of Māori Art, Knowledge and Education at Massey University in Palmerston North.
Career
Wilkinson has been a practicing jeweller for over 20 years and her work explores customary Māori adornment while pushing the boundaries of contemporary New Zealand jewellery practices. "Her work emerges from the encounter of two things: contemporary jewelry, which she would define as a critical studio craft practice which makes objects that are grounded in an awareness of the body; and Maori systems of knowledge, which place people in specific relationships to each other and to the world and which sometimes use objects to mediate these connections."
Wilkinson has exhibited nationally and internationally and has work in both private and public institutions including Te Runanga-o-Ngāi Tahu, The Dowse Art Museum, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and The Auckland War Memorial Museum.
On February 28, 2016, Wilkinson gave a lecture with Alan Preston at the Pinakothek die Moderne in Munich Germany.
Recognition
Selected Exhibitions
Further information
