He tangata Tiriti ahau
I whanau mai ahau i Whakatū
E noho ana ahau i Tāmaki Makaurau
I te taha o te moana Manukau
I te taha o te awa Whau
I te rohe ā-iwi o Te Kawerau ā maki
Nō Ingarani, Weira, Kōtirana, Aerana aku tīpuna
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Emily O’Hara is tangata Tiriti, born in Nelson and now living in the Whau, in the rohe of Te Kawerau ā maki in Tāmaki Makaurau. She is in the first generation of her family to be born in Aotearoa, with her ancestors hailing from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. She has an interdisciplinary practice fluctuating between performance, object, sculpture, social and participatory practice, photography and moving image. Her research circulates around questions of temporality, spatiality and connection. Her practice emerges through works that often operate in an extended duration, and relate to the everyday, particularly to the rhythms and repetitions of life and death. She is interested in ideas of the feminine, the maternal and the domestic, and the ways in which regular everyday registers (such as the moon, bodies of water, rocks, salt, fog and fire) can offer a space through which to think about inter-generational and inter-spatial connection.
Contact emilyoharadesign@gmail.com
