The Toi Treasury Maori Art Mail Club is NOW AVAILABLE

I have wanted to put an offer like this together for so long, and now it is finally here! I am pleased to make available to you: THE TOI TREASURY MAORI ART MONTHLY MAIL CLUB!

This is a monthly subscription service where you can choose which subscription option best suits you, and receive gorgeous high quality printed art postcards, poem postcards, letters and stickers in your physical mailbox from m every month.

All envelopes hand packed by me personally. I can post these art packs WORLDWIDE.

This is a wonderful way for you to be receiving fresh new Toi Māori and unique art in your mailbox every month, whilst simultaneously sponsoring me to continue traveling the world living my best life sharing Toi Māori and Māori perspectives in new spaces and with new audiences.

You deserve to treat yourself to something special, and your support would also mean the world to me.

All art packs will be sent out monthly by standard post. I hope you love this cool offer just as much as I do!

You can email me on taryn.teuira@gmail.com at any time if you have any questions about the TOI TREASURY MAORI ART MAIL CLUB, and you are free to cancel your subscription at any time. Start your mini art journey today.

Kia ora, from Melbourne Australia

Kia ora whanau, after four years back home in Aotearoa, New Zealand, I am now touring again, sharing my Tā Moko and Toi Māori with the world. I am currently in Melbourne, and looking at heading to Cairns and Perth (Australia) after this.

Please see my bookings page to enquire about tā moko with me at any of these locations. I also hope to make it back to Bali and Tahiti later this year, fingers crossed (two of my favorite regions in the whole world).

I am excited to currently be working on a new monthly art subscription club that YOU can join, called the TOI TREASURY MĀORI ART MONTHLY MAIL CLUB. This is a fun and accessible way for you to receive 4x mini collectable A6 unique art postcards in your mailbox every month, whilst simultaneously also sponsoring me to continue traveling the world sharing my Toi Māori and Māori perspectives with the world.

A win for you and a win for me.

Details of the new upcoming TOI TREASURY MĀORI ART MONTHLY MAIL CLUB will be available soon. Thank you for your continued support, you make my world go round.

Mauriora!

Mahi whakairo at Te Wānanga o Raukawa

I am really enjoying being a full time student at Te Wānanga o Raukawa again, this time learning whakairo (carving).

The last time I was here was back in 2011 when I did most of the Heke Mātauranga Māori.

So far I have completed two whakairo projects as pictured. Working in 3D is an exciting new challenge for me. I love being in a waananga environment again, and the library is one of my favourite workspaces.

I am really enjoying continuing on with my Te Reo Māori studies again too, particularly the mōteatea and karakia components.

Regarding taa moko, I am looking to be setup for tattooing again within the next month or so, here in Ōtaki.

Recent kōwhaiwhai waananga at Takapūwāhia Marae

It was lovely to be with and alongside whānau at our marae recently for our kōwhaiwhai waananga, playing with watercolours and enjoying mahi toi, kotahitanga and whanaungatanga.

I am looking forward to the rest of these waananga toi throughout this year.

LOVE LAND LINEAGE solo exhibition opening soon at Toi Māori Gallery

The most significant solo show of my career to date opens on Thursday 15th May at 5.30pm at the Toi Māori Gallery Wellington CBD. If you have been a supporter of my mahi over the past twenty years, nau mai haere mai.

The kaupapa of this exhibition is on the theme of healing.

Toi as a pathway from te pō ki te ao mārama.

Colour (which is light) as rongoā.

Symbolism and symbolic storytelling as rongoā.

Pūrākau attached to old designs as medicine.

Atua associated with our ancient symbolism and artforms, as unique medicine carriers.

LOVE (AROHA)

Healing through love for ourselves and each other. Love for our artforms, love for our traditions, love for our reo, love for our tūpuna, love for our tikanga. Love for our Mātauranga Māori, love for our Whare Waananga, love for our taiao, love for our rongoā Māori, love for the communities we belong to, love for our atua, love for our whānau, tamariki and mokopuna. 

LAND (WHENUA)

Healing through connection to our lands and through practicing kaitiakitanga of our whenua. Healing from living and being tangata whenua and ahi kaa on our tūrangawaewae. Spending physical time barefoot on our significant places and pockets of land. Healing ourselves and our whānau through occupying and being present at and on our ancestral lands of spiritual importance. Healing through maintaining our lands. Healing through practicing our rangatiratanga from our special whenua and our unique places of belonging.

LINEAGE (WHAKAPAPA)

Healing through our whakapapa. Healing bloodlines. The continuum of lineage from ancestor to offspring and all that entails. Healing through the communities we belong to through our lineages. Healing through the ancestral gifts passed down to us through our whakapapa. Healing through our children and for our children. Healing through remembrance of our divine lineage going directly back to our atua. 

I will have some taa moko special dates available inside of this exhibition for some of my Wellington CBD based clients. More details and exact dates to come soon, or email me on taryn.teuira@gmail.com to reserve one of these limited town spots at Toi Māori Gallery.

Two new 'little prayer' paintings now available 'HE AROHA MUTUNGA' and 'MY REASON FOR LIVING'

I have recently completed two new paintings, now available by emailing me on taryn.teuira@gmail.com. Both of these pieces are signed and dated on the back and measure 25cm by 25cm each.

I am still working on my new ‘LOVE LAND LINEAGE’ exhibition pieces for my solo show opening at Toi Maori Gallery on 15 May 2025 in Wellington CBD.

Upcoming Porirua Art Trail 2025 with Ngati Toa artists

Looking forward to participating in the upcoming Porirua Art Trail alongside our multi-disciplinary Ngati Toa artists, the Ahi Kaa Toi Collective and my immediate family in our newly established Horomona Whanau Collective.

The artforms already included in the Horomona Whanau Collective with my teina and tuakana include taa moko, painting, taaniko, raaranga, whakairo, toi kupu and contemporary object art.

Over the past year or so we have participated as a whanau in several community + art events together and our collaborative whanau toi kaupapa continues to grow, develop and evolve organically and beautifully with our complimentary skill sets, ideas, talents and personalities.

Come and visit us all at both Whitireia Polytech and at Pataka Art + Museum on 8 and 9 March 2025. We will have artistic earrings, taaniko works, bags and scarfs available as well as some original paintings and A4 frameable art prints.

Waitangi Day with Ngati Toa artists at Pataka Art + Museum

Waitangi Day with Ngati Toa artists and the Ahi Kaa Toi Collective at Pataka Art + Museum was alot of fun. Thanks to everyone that supported our artists and made purchases on the day.

Back in Otaki for 2025 waananga life

I am now based back in Otaki once more and i’m excited to also be enrolling to study whakairo (carving) for personal interest and development at Te Wananga o Raukawa for 2025.

I love learning and it’s a privilege to have the chance to study again at this point of my life.

It is also such a blessing to be back involved with my church community at Rangiatea.

Recent mahi kirituhi ki Hongoeka Marae

It was an honour to recently create kirituhi and share my art alongside other Ngati Toa artists with some First Nation indigenous special guests visiting Hongoeka Marae.

'Painting the joy back into life' new painting now available

Happy to have a new original painting in a new fun, colourful, vibrant, floral style now available over on my PAINTINGS page.

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'LOVE, LAND, L,INEAGE' an upcoming solo exhibition at Toi Māori Gallery, Wellington

I am currently working on my upcoming solo exhibition of new paintings.

’Love, land, lineage’ will be my most significant solo exhibition to date and is scheduled to open on 1 May 2025 at the Toi Maori Gallery in Wellington CBD.

New paintings now available

I have recently completed 6 new paintings.

BIG THANKS to everyone that has already bought art from me over the past sixteen or so years.

Recent moko peha puhoro work

I am thrilled to currently be working on two moko peha puhoro for clients in Nelson and Wellington.

We are spreading the work out over time, during several sessions, rather than doing it all in one big sitting lasting several days in a row. I look forward to sharing more pics once the mahi is all complete.

I am happy to offer moko peha puhoro to both male and female clients.

Email me on taryn.teuira@gmail.com if you would like to start your moko peha puhoro journey with me.

Mauriora!

Installation of my art at Labour MP offices in Paraparaumu, New Zealand

Many thanks to Creative Manaaki for organizing the current installation of over 15 of my art works in Paraparaumu, at the offices of female Labour MP’s Terisa Ngobi and Barbara Edmonds.

Most of the art pieces on display are original paintings.

I always appreciate diverse opportunities to exhibit and sell my art works.

My recent tour of Melbourne, Brisbane, Cairns and Perth, Australia

Many thanks to all the beautiful souls that have crossed my path over the recent months of my Australia tour in Melbourne, Brisbane, Cairns and Perth.

It has been especially significant to spend time with close whanau in Australia whom I haven’t seen in a few years due to Covid.

I appreciate you all so much.

Mauriora!

Matariki Whakanuia exhibition at Kiwibank Paraparaumu

I was very happy to have five artworks exhibited recently at the ‘Matariki Whakanuia’ exhibition at Kiwibank Paraparaumu organized by Creative Manaaki.

Many thanks to everyone that made this exhibition happen.

'Waitangi, why tangi, why we tangi' exhibition in Palmerston North and Whakatane

Happy to have one of my original paintings in the ‘WAITANGI, WHY TANGI, WHY WE TANGI’ exhibition that showed in Palmerston North and is soon opening in Whakatane, New Zealand.

Thanks to everyone involved in making this exhibition happen.