Bridget Reweti
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Bridget Reweti | |
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.jpg) Reweti at the Venice Biennale Youth Forum in 2017 | |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Known for | Landscapes and indigenous images |
Bridget Reweti is a New Zealand photographer and moving image artist.[1][2] Reweti is a member of the artist group Mataaho Collective.[3]
Reweti holds a Master of Māori Visual Arts from Toioho ki Āpiti, the School of Māori Studies at Massey University.[4] She also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies from Victoria University of Wellington.[5]
Career
Reweti works with photography and moving image.[1] Her work explores and subverts New Zealand iconic landscapes, and issues of contemporary indigenous realities.[1][6] Reweti is a member of the Mata Aho Collective, a collaboration of four Māori women artists known for their large scale textile-based installations.[7] She has held numerous residencies in New Zealand and internationally, and her work is held in both private and public collections.[8] Reweti was the 2018 Artist in Residence at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School[8] and was the 2020 Frances Hogkins Fellow.[9]
As well as exhibiting her artwork nationally and internationally, Reweti has worked as at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, the Dowse Art Museum, and as the Exhibitions Officer at Pātaka Art + Museum.[10] Rewati collaborates with Matariki Williams editing ATE Journal of Maori Art.[11]
