Bridget Reweti (active since 2000s) is a New Zealand photographer and moving image artist of

Ngāti Ranginui Ngāti Ranginui is a Māori iwi (tribe) in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Its rohe (tribal area) extends from Waihi in the north, to the Kaimai Range in the west, to south of Te Puke in the south, and to Tauranga in the east. The rohe does not e ...

and

Ngāi Te Rangi Ngāi Te Rangi or Ngāiterangi is a Māori iwi, based in Tauranga, New Zealand. Its rohe (tribal area) extends to Mayor Island / Tuhua and Bowentown in the north, to the Kaimai Range in the west, south of Te Puke and to Maketu in the east. Ng ...

descent. Reweti is a member of the artist group

Mata Aho Collective The Mata Aho Collective is a group of four Māori women artists, Erena Baker ( Te Atiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangātira), Sarah Hudson (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe), Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi) and Terri Te Tau ( Rangit ...

Education

Reweti holds a Masters in Māori Visual Arts from Toioho ki Āpiti, the School of Māori Studies,

Massey University Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural o ...

. She also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies from

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of New Zealand Parliament, Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Z ...

Career

Reweti works with photography and moving image. Her work explores and subverts New Zealand iconic landscapes, and issues of contemporary indigenous realities. Reweti is a member of the Mata Aho Collective, a collaboration of four Māori women artists known for their large scale textile-based installations. She has held numerous residencies in New Zealand and internationally, and her work is held in both private and public collections. Reweti was the 2018 Artist in Residence at

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and was the 2020 Frances Hogkins Fellow. As well as exhibiting her artwork nationally and internationally, Reweti has worked as at

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, the

Dowse Art Museum The Dowse Art Museum is a municipal art gallery in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Opening in 1971 in the Lower Hutt CBD, The Dowse occupies a stand-alone building adjacent to other municipal facilities. The building was completely remodelled in 201 ...

, and as the Exhibitions Officer at

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. Rewati collaborates with Matariki Williams editing ATE Journal of Maori Art. She lives and works in

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Exhibitions

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 Enjoy Contemporary Art Space is a contemporary art space in Cuba Street arts area of Wellington, New Zealand. Commonly known as 'Enjoy', the gallery was founded in 2000 by artists Ciaran Begley, Ros Cameron and Rachel Smithies as an artist-run ...

in 2015 and

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, U.K. in 2016, ''Tauutuutu'' at

in 2016, and ''Irihanga'' at

Tauranga Art Gallery Tauranga Art Gallery an Arts Gallery located in the Western Bay of Plenty District, New Zealand. The gallery exhibits historical and contemporary art. History In 1999 the Tauranga Art Gallery Trust purchased the former Bank of New Zealand buildi ...

in 2017. Her collaboration with Terri Te Tau, ''Ōtākaro'', was presented at

The Physics Room The Physics Room is a non-commercial contemporary art gallery in Christchurch, New Zealand, described as "one of the country's best-known contemporary experiential art spaces". It is primarily funded by Creative New Zealand, one of four contempor ...

in 2016. With the Mata Aho Collective, she exhibited ''Te Whare Pora'' at

as part of a 2013 summer Residency. In 2017, the Mata Aho Collective was included in

Documenta 14 documenta 14 was the fourteenth edition of the art exhibition documenta and took place in 2017 in both Kassel, Germany, its traditional home, and Athens, Greece. It was held first in Athens from 8 April to 16 July, and in Kassel from 10 June ...

, where they presented ''Kiko Moana'', a large scale work rendered in blue tarpaulin mounted in Kassel's regional museum.

References

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