Art making workshop explores layers of whakapapa

Visual artist and researcher, Emily Parr (Ngāi Te Rangi, Moana, Pākehā) recently led a workshop with Macleans College senior Visual Arts students.

The workshop was coordinated by Te Tuhi as part of their invaluable Artists in Schools programme. Students learnt about the contexts which Parr’s visual arts practice works within and how she employs moving image processes to explore and communicate archival stories of her ancestors and their settler-indigenous relationships.

Students then had the opportunity to use their own archival images, ephemera and documents to explore links with their own layers of whakapapa and personal family stories. The multi-layered works were produced both digitally or by hand and ignited in students an awareness of the power of their own voice in art making.