Maureen Lander returns to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery with an extensive exhibition which will include collaborative installations with weavers, children and community members.

He tukutuku auahatanga presents new and existing collaborative installations conceived by Dr. Maureen Lander MNZM (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutū) and made with community through processes of relational and intergenerational knowledge transmission and regeneration.

A celebrated multi-media artist, Lander is well known for her fibre installations that are inextricably interwoven with the location, context, and community for which her works are created. Across this exhibition, she weaves together concepts, images and materials that explore enduring relationships between people, place, and material culture.

Over 100 artists have been involved in the making of He tukutuku auahatanga with Lander as the lead artist. Through this approach Lander embraces the contingent meaning, and ephemeral nature of site-responsive installation art and art making with other people. This embrace of ephemerality as inevitable, reflects an understanding of weaving as an art that is intrinsically entwined with rangahau—or the pursuit of knowledge—the continuity of which rests in the hands and minds of the people.