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Work by Whanganui artist Ming Ranginui features in 'Matarau' exhibition in Wellington

Mike Tweed
By Mike Tweed
Multimedia Journalist·Whanganui Chronicle·
10 May, 2022 05:00 PM2 mins to read

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Ming Ranginui found the car at a wreckers in Lower Hutt. Photo / Supplied

Ming Ranginui found the car at a wreckers in Lower Hutt. Photo / Supplied

A reworked Daihatsu is front and centre at a new art exhibition in Wellington, and the artist behind it is from Whanganui.

Ming Ranginui's work, Angel Numbers on the Dash, features in Matarau, a group exhibition of contemporary Māori art at City Gallery.

The car itself, a rolling body, was sourced from a wreckers' yard in Lower Hutt.

"All my work is informed by what is going on in my life at the time," Ranginui said.

She was living at her mum's house in Whanganui when she got the opportunity to work on the car.

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"I didn't have a place to put it so I ended up working on it at my boyfriend's mum's house. Then we moved in there because we were trying to save money for a place of our own."

The search for a house proved difficult, and influenced how the work came out.

The exterior of the car remains largely unchanged, except for a hood ornament featuring a spinning, praying girl.

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"I was manifesting and praying for a house, so it has nods to new-age religion or something like that."

A chandelier hangs from the interior, the front seats are gone, the back seats have been sewn with satin and Ranginui added a frilled steering wheel cover.

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Ranginui attended Whanganui High School before moving to Wellington to study Fine Arts at Massey University.

She returned to the capital at the start of this year after finally finding somewhere to live.

"I've got a house and I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm really thankful for that. It feels like that's a rare thing to happen."

The exhibition was curated by Walters Prize-winning Pōneke artist, writer and curator, Shannon Te Ao.

Te Ao said Matarau was "visually fun and big on scale and ambition".

"Matarau follows a number of exhibitions in Aotearoa that are highlighting the significance of Māori art. This is part of that bigger picture."

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The word 'Matarau' refers to a multi-pronged spear used for fishing and eeling by early Māori.

"As a hunter or wayfinder must understand the shifting conditions around them to fulfill their purpose, the artists in Matarau draw from a strong sense of who and where they are as a compass for their own practice," Te Ao said.

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