Kimihia Rangahaua

TOI MATARAU KI KAPITI 2025

Vibrant, bold, intergenerational storytelling!

Toi Matarau Gallery proudly presents Kimihia Rangahaua as part of our annual Toi Matarau ki Kapiti event participating in this year’s Kapiti Arts Trail.
Kimihia Rangahaua means to seek, to explore, to understand. This kaupapa inspires both artists and audiences to reflect, research, and discover through the power of Ngā Toi Māori. At a time of upheaval across Aotearoa and the wider world, Kimihia Rangahaua offers art as a space to uplift, restore, and re-centre the heart, mind, and spirit.
This exhibition brings together the unique voices of artists from the ART Confederation — Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira — alongside guest artists from across the motu. Each artist contributes a distinctive visual language: art that speaks, art that heals, art that is proud and resilient, and art that calls us home.

Highlights of the exhibition include:

– Poutokomanawa Darcy Nicholas, presenting a powerful body of new work.

– Iwi Taketake – Indigenous Guest Artists; Melita Raravula, Margaret August, Dorothy Grant, Vina Brown, Ed NoiseCat & Tamara Rain Bell.

– Guest artists Annay Kara, Geneva Pomana, Madison Redman, Hikurangi Edwards, and children’s designer clothing line Tamaiti by Te Ura Taripo Hoskins and Antonia Fletcher.

– Ōtaki weaver Pip Devonshire (Ngā Aho Whenua Alumnae), returning to Ōtaki with new raranga creations following her celebrated solo exhibition He Rā Mokopuna as part of Kia Emiemi at Toi Mahara.

– Josh Parata (Oro Acoustics), unveiling an innovative sculpture collection that must be seen in situ.

– Intergenerational artists father and son, Steve and Maia Gibbs exhibiting side by side.