Paerau Corneal
Paerau Corneal is a New Zealand ceramicist.
Education
Corneal holds a certificate in craft design and a diploma in craft design Māori from Waiariki Institute of Technology. She is of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Te Āti Haunui-A-Pāpārangi descent.Career
Corneal has exhibited both internationally and nationally since 1988. A consistent theme in her work is Māori female empowerment. From 2013 Corneal has collaborated with contemporary Māori dancer Louise Potiki Bryant. Their performance work entitled Kiri references a creation narrative of the first Māori human, Hineahuone, and opened for the 2014 Tempo Dance Festival in Auckland.Throughout her career, Corneal has been involved in varying artist collectives. She was a founding member, alongside Manos Nathan, Baye Riddell, Wi Taepa and Colleen Waata Urlich of Ngā Kaihanga Uku, a collective of Māori clay workers.
Corneal was also involved with Kauwae, a collective of Māori women artists formed in 1997; Te Rōpū o Ngā Wāhine Kai Whakairo, a collective of Māori women carvers and Haeata Women's Collective.
Selected exhibitions
- 2013-5 Uku Rere, Ngā Kaihanaga Uku. Pataka Art + Museum; Whangarei Art Museum Te Manawa Toi; the Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatu; Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato; Tairawhiti Museum Te Whare Taonga o te Tairawhiti; and Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science + History.
- 2014 Slip Cast, The Dowse Art Museum
- 2009 Kauwae 09, Kauwae Group, a national collective of Mäori women artists. Tairawhiti Museum.
- 2005 Manawa: Pacific heartbeat. Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver.
- 2003 Kiwa: Pacific connections: Maori art from Aotearoa. Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver.
- 2003-5 Ngā Toko Rima, Ngā Kaihanga Uku. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Tinakori Gallery, Wellington.
- 2002 Sisters Yakkananna/Kahui Mareikura. Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide.
- 1998 Uku! Uku! Uku! International Festival of the Arts, Wellington
- 1992 Treasures of the Underworld. World Expo, Seville; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.