Archive
Every issue of Awa Wahine is created to be held, revisited, and shared.
With each new edition, we open one piece from the previous issue to everyone. This archive also holds years of essays, reflections, interviews, and stories from the pages of Awa Wahine.
Begin anywhere.
You are Fierce, You are Full
Cat Ruka and Bella Waru of Tempo Dance Festival on movement and atuatanga as protective forces in the arts sector.
Moewai Marsh
Moewai Marsh is a ringatoi who uses Māori symbolism to give mana back to our tāonga.
Let’s Face it, We’d All Be Screwed Without the Arts
Nicola Paul on the reality of Covid-19 in Aotearoa.
Putaanga Waitoa
Putaanga Waitoa is a photographer and writer who is passionate about indigenous peoples and activism.
Saber Stainton
Saber Stainton is a Perth-based contemporary Māori artist of Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu descent.
Josie Selkirk
Josie Selkirk is a talented Whangarei-based illustrator of rongoā and native birds.
Jessica Thompson Carr
Jessica Thompson Carr is an artist born and bred in Ōtepoti, New Zealand.
Flags on Shoulders and Stars on Lapels
An astonomical visual display created by artist Jess V. Knipping. Narrated by Sarah Knipping
Nikki Mariner
Nikki Mariners uses bold colours and figures depicting experiences of brown women who balance traditional cultural norms with modern busy lives
Izzy Joy Te Aho-White
Izzy Joy Te Aho-White is an artist of Māori, British and Danish Ancestry

