TeIpuKai

At the Foot of the Maunga, part of Auckland Arts Festival’s Whānui programme, is a project where the neighbouring suburbs of Tāmaki and Maungakiekie team up to transform public space. This exchange of ideas will see large-scale installations created within the communities and displayed in Onehunga and Panmure.

In association with TGTB Charitable Trust and led by artists Bobby MacDonald and Chantel Matthews, a series of workshops have been created to engage and invite the community to come along and assist in the making of these sculptural installations.

Te Ipu Kai

Venue: Panmure Basin

Led by artist Bobby MacDonald and supported by The 312 Hub
This sculpture was informed as part of a Hikoiā te Korero where participants cycled around Onehunga Bay, Manukanuka o Hoturoa (Manukau Harbour) and Kura a Maki (Mount Smart / Rarotonga) as a way to share the kōrero o nehera (stories of the past) by breathing life into those spaces.
The workshops created plywood designs of kai moana (seafood) that was once found in Te Manukanuka o Hoturoa (Manukau Harbour).

Te Ipu Kai aims to inspire awareness of the significance of our cultural landscapes and the importance of taking care of our harbour and waterways, how water connects as a people through history, art, kōrero, and to set the challenge to take guardianship of our land and sea.