Bridget Reweti

Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi

Currently based in Ōtepoti

Bridget Reweti’s lens-based practice explores Māori landscape narratives and perspectives of people and place, often through a close investigation of the personal, natural, cultural and historical knowledge that site holds.

She holds a Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts and Master of Māori Visual Arts from Massey University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies from Victoria University of Wellington. She is a member of Mata Aho Collective and the co-editor of "ATE: Journal of Māori Art".

Bridget is the 2020/21 Frances Hodgkins Fellow and opened her fellowship exhibition "Pōkai Whenua, Pōkai Moana" in August 2021. A part of this exhibition, “Summering on Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri” consists of series containing over 40, 8x10” whenua coloured gelatin silver photographs. Made with a large-format camera, each photograph was developed in her darkroom and then hand-coloured with earth pigments gathered and gifted from where the image was made.

All images below are courtesy of the artist, you can see more of Bridget’s work here