Lino print - unframed
Edition of 30
Signed by Artist
This artwork ‘Kererū te Taonga’ celebrates the kererū as a spiritual presence in te ao Māori, both a taonga species and a symbol of balance, abundance, and relationship to the ngahere. The kererū, with its iridescent feathers and slow, steady flight, is a bird of quiet strength. This work sees the kererū as a living link between past and present, sky and soil, people and place. It is a bearer of knowledge, a sign of seasonal change, of forest survival and a spiritual messenger. To observe the kererū is to listen to an elder in motion. It teaches without speaking. Kererū te Taonga is about the transmission of mātauranga, the kind passed down not just through words but through presence: through watching the flight of a bird, the fall of a leaf, the sound of the forest. It is a reminder that our ancestors are still here, not behind us, but around us. The work explores our want for knowledge and wisdom, it symbolises our need to look to our elders for guidance in order to understand our history and to grow culturally.
Linocut is a relief printmaking technique similar to woodcut, but carved into linoleum instead of wood. The artist cuts away areas of the block to create a design, then inks the raised surface. The image is transferred to paper by hand or press, producing clean, graphic prints.
PAPER: Ink on Fabriano Paper
SIZE: Image: 335mm x 410mm, Paper: 500mm x 700mm
PLEASE NOTE: The frame shown is made in a virtual setting to give an example of what the print could look like framed.
