He Kapunga Oneone is a learning space, the artists and researchers of Te Kauae Raro aren’t the leading experts in the field or the only tohunga at the tuahu but we’ve been learning and honing our whenua-based practice, formally, since 2019.

Below are a series of guidelines, protocols and value systems generously shared by contemporary Māori earth pigment practitioners working across Aotearoa today. Some mātauranga has been handed down, some tikanga has been evolved via customary practice, and some have been developed in direct response to our contemporary social contexts.