Ngā Kaihangu Uku & Friends at Driving Creek

This uku workshop fosters whanaungatanga (the process of establishing relationships) through collective making and conversation. Participants will learn how to use shellac resist and water etching to create textured surfaces, incorporating personal narratives into their clay pieces.

About the artist:

Dorothy Waetford
B 1967
Ko Onekainga te maunga,
Ko Te Wairahi te awa,
Ko Ngāti Rehua, Te Whānau Whero me Ngāti Hine ngā hapu,
Ko Ngātiwai, Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu ngā iwi

Dorothy was encouraged by whānau to pursue her natural creative talents from a young age. She trained and performed with Te Kanikani o Te Rangatahi and Taiao Māori Dance Theatre in the eighties. The influence of Māori Artists and Writers and Ngā Puna Waihanga, later led to Ngā Kaihanga Uku Māori Clay Workers Collective and Te Ātinga Contemporary Māori Visual Arts committee of Toi Māori Aotearoa.

Living on the coast at Matapouri Bay, Dorothy exhibits work regularly, and supports the aspirational, cultural advocacy and agency of Toi Ngāpuhi.

Materials Participants Should Bring: 

• Paint brushes for painting shellac onto clay surface. 
• Bone dry pots x3 with packaging material to take pots away.