Shona Moller is a

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, New Zealand, artist based on the

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. She has been a professional artist since 1999, exhibited

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2003. Her first solo London exhibition opened in 2008 in Bloomsbury. The 2008 London exhibition was a sell out. Moller has two dedicated spaces in New Zealand, her largest being directly opposite Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Her

Paraparaumu Beach Paraparaumu Beach is a coastal settlement on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is located west of the main Paraparaumu township, 50 km north of Wellington. The area faces Kapiti Island. Demographics Paraparaumu Beach, which c ...

Studio is open to the public and has a small gallery at the front. In 2010 Shona's work was selected as a travelling finalist in the 19th Annual

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under the nom de plume of Heke Parata. Heke Parata is Shona's great, great, great Grandmother of

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descent who was kidnapped by

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in 1828 and held hostage on

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.Heke Parata genealogy
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