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About the Artist: Selwyn Muru

About the Artist: Selwyn Muru Selwyn Muru (Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupōuri), one of New Zealand’s most senior Māori artists, is a tribal repository of knowledge, painter, sculptor, playwright, musician, pio- neer broadcaster, fisherman, educator, and former orator for New Zealand’s governor- general, Sir Anand Satyanand. Muru first studied art under Katerina Mata ira at Northland College. He later founded Te Toi Hou, the Māori Art Depart- ment at Elam School of Fine Arts, and Photo by Margaret Nepia-Muru taught Māori whaikōrero (oratory) classes for the University of Auckland’s Māori Studies Department; he was also official Māori orator for the Uni - versity of Auckland. He acted alongside Kiri Te Kanawa in the film Run- away. He wrote the first Māori-language play to be televised, To Ohaki o Niho, and several other plays in English that were brought to the stage in New Zealand, including The Ballad of Tupou, The Gospel According to Tane, and Get the Hell Home Boy. He produced and directed many documentaries for radio and television, and his art has been represented in numerous national and international exhibitions, including the first Johannesburg Art Biennale in 1995. Some of his work, including paintings from his 1970s Parihaka series (featured in this issue), http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

About the Artist: Selwyn Muru

The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 29 (2) – Aug 9, 2017
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Selwyn Muru (Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupōuri), one of New Zealand’s most senior Māori artists, is a tribal repository of knowledge, painter, sculptor, playwright, musician, pio- neer broadcaster, fisherman, educator, and former orator for New Zealand’s governor- general, Sir Anand Satyanand. Muru first studied art under Katerina Mata ira at Northland College. He later founded Te Toi Hou, the Māori Art Depart- ment at Elam School of Fine Arts, and Photo by Margaret Nepia-Muru taught Māori whaikōrero (oratory) classes for the University of Auckland’s Māori Studies Department; he was also official Māori orator for the Uni - versity of Auckland. He acted alongside Kiri Te Kanawa in the film Run- away. He wrote the first Māori-language play to be televised, To Ohaki o Niho, and several other plays in English that were brought to the stage in New Zealand, including The Ballad of Tupou, The Gospel According to Tane, and Get the Hell Home Boy. He produced and directed many documentaries for radio and television, and his art has been represented in numerous national and international exhibitions, including the first Johannesburg Art Biennale in 1995. Some of his work, including paintings from his 1970s Parihaka series (featured in this issue),

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Published: Aug 9, 2017

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