Bridget Reweti

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Bridget Reweti
Reweti at the Venice Biennale Youth Forum in 2017
NationalityNew Zealander
OccupationPhotographer
Years active2000–present
Known forLandscapes and indigenous images
Notable workThe Physics Room
Documenta 14

Bridget Reweti (active since 2000s) is a New Zealand photographer and moving image artist of Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi descent.[1][2] Reweti is a member of the artist group Mata Aho Collective.[3]

Education[edit]

Reweti holds a master's in Māori Visual Arts from Toioho ki Āpiti, the School of Māori Studies, Massey University.[4] She also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies from Victoria University of Wellington.[5]

Career[edit]

Reweti works with photography and moving image.[1] Her work explores and subverts New Zealand iconic landscapes, and issues of contemporary indigenous realities.[1][6] Reweti is a member of the Mata Aho Collective, a collaboration of four Māori women artists known for their large scale textile-based installations.[7] She has held numerous residencies in New Zealand and internationally, and her work is held in both private and public collections.[8] Reweti was the 2018 Artist in Residence at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School[8] and was the 2020 Frances Hogkins Fellow.[9]

As well as exhibiting her artwork nationally and internationally, Reweti has worked as at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, the Dowse Art Museum, and as the Exhibitions Officer at Pātaka Art + Museum.[10] Rewati collaborates with Matariki Williams editing ATE Journal of Maori Art.[11]

She lives and works in Wellington.[6]

Exhibitions[edit]

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 in 2015 and Plymouth Arts Centre, U.K. in 2016,[12][13] Tauutuutu at Pātaka Art + Museum in 2016,[14] and Irihanga at Tauranga Art Gallery in 2017.[15]

Her collaboration with Terri Te Tau, Ōtākaro, was presented at The Physics Room in 2016.[6]

With the Mata Aho Collective, she exhibited Te Whare Pora at Enjoy Gallery as part of a 2013 summer Residency.[16][17] In 2017, the Mata Aho Collective was included in Documenta 14, where they presented Kiko Moana, a large scale work rendered in blue tarpaulin mounted in Kassel's regional museum.[3][18]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Bridget Reweti". CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand. 22 July 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  2. ^ "About". Bridget Reweti. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b Hopkins, Candice. "Mata Aho Collective". documenta 14: Daybook. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Bridget Reweti". ADA: Aotearoa Digital Arts Network. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Photographer is Marsden School's Artist in Residence". wellington.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  6. ^ a b c "Ōtākaro | The Physics Room". www.physicsroom.org.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  7. ^ Corballis, Tim (2018). "Mata Aho: Mana wāhine in contemporary art" (PDF). Counterfutures. 5.
  8. ^ a b "2018 Artist in Residence". Samuel Marsden Collegiate School. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Bridget Reweti". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Bridget Reweti | School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies | Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Matariki Williams | Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre". govettbrewster.com. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  12. ^ "I thought I would of climbed more mountains by now | Enjoy Gallery". enjoy.org.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  13. ^ "Bridget Reweti: I thought I would of climbed more mountains by now - Plymouth Arts Centre". Plymouth Arts Centre. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  14. ^ "Bridget Reweti Tauutuutu - Pataka". Pataka. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  15. ^ "Bridget Reweti, Irihanga, Tauranga Art Gallery". Tauranga Art Gallery. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  16. ^ "Te Whare Pora | Enjoy Gallery". enjoy.org.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  17. ^ Amery, Mark (31 January 2013). "Collaborative artwork presented on mink blankets". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  18. ^ "documenta 14 – EyeContact". eyecontactsite.com. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
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