Sandy Rodgers

D.O.B. 01 August 1975
Born in Wellington, New Zealand.

Ko Tainui te waka
Ko Tararua te Maunga
Ko Ohau te awa
Ko Ngati Raukawa,Tuwharetoa nga iwi,
Ko Ngati Kikopiri te Hapu
Ko Kikopiri te Marae
No Te Awa Kairangi toku Kainga
Ko Sandy Rodgers ahau

My Canoe is Tainui (that my ancestors travelled to New Zealand/Aotearoa in)
My Mountain is Tararua
My River is Ohau
My Tribes are Ngati Raukawa and Tuwharetoa
My Sub-Tribe is Ngati Kikopiri
My Tribal Meeting House is called Kikopiri
I live in Te Awakairangi
I am Sandy Rodgers



I have been painting all my life and after years of study, work, travel and general life experience I realised how little I really knew of not only my heritage but all of New Zealands heritage and thus I have since made it my personal goal to study, research, read, question and create as much information as possible. I studied Traditional Maori Weaving and Arts in Waiwhetu under Erenora Puketapu-Hetet and her family. I also have an Honors Diploma in Art & Creativity. More importantly I have been actively creating art since I was old enough to hold a pencil and that passion has never faltered. I feel there is a need to cross the two mediums of...

CURRENTLY REPRESENTED BY:

The Artists Room
Dowling Street
Dunedin

Walrus Gallery
Taranaki Street
Wellington

Kapa Gallery
Rees street,
Queenstown

River East Gallery
Main Street
Greytown

Wine Country Gallery
Treachers Lane
Havelock North

Ashton Grove
Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch

Exhibition History:

Pacific Artifact
Exalt Gallery
Wellington
2007

Contemporary Artifacts
Walrus Gallery, Wellington
2006

Contemporary Artifacts
Ashton Grove, Wellington
2006

5+ Exhibition, Farsite Gallery,
Petone, Wellington,
2006

5+ Exhibition, Rise, The Terrace,
Wellington, 2005

Kura Gallery, Allen St,
Wellington, 2003,4,5

Aotearoa Exhibition, Basauri,
Spain, 2002

Artbank Gallery, Clerkenwell,
London, 2002

Brixton Art Gallery,
London, 2002

Indigenous Gallery, Guthrie Street,
Lower Hutt, 2000

Toi Maori, Tory Street
Wellington, 2000

Te Puni Kokiri, Lampton Quay,
Wellington, 2000

Art Debonair, Boulcott Street, Wellington, 2000

X-Factor Gallery, Lampton Quay, Wellington, 2000

Whare Pastiche, Vivian Street, Wellington...