Huhana Smith discusses Natalie Robertson’s large scale photographs Te Puna o Te Ao Te Huinga and kahikatea trees, Tīkapa-a-Hinekōpeka I–III, (2018),placing the works within the environmental project with which Robertson’s work engages. Informed by her own interdisciplinary art practice concerned with restoring waterways and ancestral lands, Huhana provides experienced insights into the far-reaching possibilities generated by embedding practice within Mātauranga Māori.

Dr Huhana Smith is the Head of Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Massey University and a visual artist, curator and principal investigator for a research team engaged in collaborative, trans-disciplinary, kaupapa Māori and action-research projects for Māori lands and waterways in Horowhenua/Kāpiti.

This event is part of the Reading Pictures lunchtime talk series. Over the course of Adam Art Gallery’s exhibition Tēnei Ao Tūroa – This Enduring World we paired a speaker with an art work, inviting them to offer their responses by drawing on their particular insights, interests and knowledge.