Hautāmiro

This week we are excited to welcome our community to celebrate Hautāmiro - the new installation by Mataaho Collective. Extending across twenty metres, the work creates meeting points between weaving traditions of kākahu Māori (Māori garments) and the introduction of wool by British and European migrants. Inspired by the dynamic visual language of hukahuka whakarākei (the adornments of customary kākahu), Hautāmiro acknowledges many things – Māori innovation, ancestral knowledge and the many ties that bind people together. 

Mataaho Collective (est. 2012) have been working in Ōtepoti Dunedin as part of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Aotearoa Visiting Artist Programme, supported by Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.

Hautāmiro will be accompanied all week by a live stream of Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga 2025, the world’s largest kapa haka competition, which is taking place this year in Ngāmotu New Plymouth.  Watch on our large foyer screens as 55 kapa from across Aotearoa take to the atamira (stage), screening from Tuesday 25 February to Saturday 1 March.


Noho ora mai
Lucy Hammonds
Kairauhī Curator
Dunedin Public Art Gallery