Muramura

This is an exhibition of a new series of artworks connecting customary Mäori tukutuku patterns with urban signage and lighting technology. Muramura means blaze, shimmering, eye-catching, or communicative according to the artist, University lecturer and Mäori visual artist Kura Puke.

Kura made the works from acrylic, light-emitting diodes and fibre optic cable to represent the traditional wood and fibre used in tukutuku found in wharenui. Muramura investigates how Mäori visual culture continues to reconcile and integrate fundamental values and cultural identity in an increasingly, globalised, urbanised reality. The exhibition features eight illuminated animated tukutuku panels. Six of the panels make up one integrated work.

She will explain the concepts of the work at a floor-talk, at 1pm on Sunday, 27 July, at Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua.