Bridget Reweti

Reweti holds a Masters 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]

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]

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]