Ariki Tama Turanga Huata   BVAD

Pae Tahi

Tairawhiti / Takitimu Art, Design

Ngāi Tūhoe + Ngāi Tahu + Ngāti Tūwharetoa + Ngāti Kahungunu

Kia Ora, Ko Kahuranaki te Maunga, Ko Tukituki te Awa, Ko Mihiroa te Marae, Ko Ngati Mihiroa te Hapu, Ko Ngati Kahungunu te Iwi, Ko Takitimu te Waka.

Grown up in a Māori performing arts family with the Takitimu Performing Arts school and Kahurangi Māori Dance Theatre of New Zealand. It is through this i developed my love to create, through the teachings of this whare wananga i have done Iwi studies, Te Reo Māori me on a ticking, Māori and Contemporary performing arts, event management, Anatomy, Manāki/Hospitality.

From here i ventured out in the word to achieve my American High School diploma in my completion of american high school at Bishop Brady High School in Canterberry New Hampshire.

I have always had a passion for the visual side of Art so on my arrival back from america i took up the certificate in Visual arts and design going though L3, L4, and currently doing my Bachelors of Visual Arts and Design Student with Ideaschool at Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawkes Bay. Still finding myself, but its a journey i am willing to take.