Maureen Lander

Weaving forms the foundation of Maureen Lander’s practice, which extends across installation and spatial composition. A Māori artist, she works with materials such as harakeke (New Zealand flax) and muka, a fibre extracted from it, bringing ancestral knowledge into dialogue with contemporary forms. Her work explores how relationships between material, genealogy, kinship and place are structured, remembered and carried. Attentive to the transmission of knowledge across territories and generations, her installations create spaces in which inherited practices are reactivated and sustained within the present.

With the support of Creative New Zealand and the Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa