Tūhoe, Te Urewera, Ngai Te Riu

Kylie Tiuka is an artist whose practice is guided by whakapapa, whenua, and spiritual memory. Grounded in a devotion to creativity, colour, and making her work operates as a vessel for cultural storytelling, bridging the physical and metaphysical, the ancestral and the contemporary. Her works are intentionally layered and symbolic, holding multiple readings. Kylie creates visual narratives that honour both personal experience and collective memory.

Kylie’s practice is not static; it evolves alongside her lived experience. Each body of work reflects a moment in an ongoing journey of remembering, becoming, and rearticulation. Through contemporary forms and materials, she reimagines ancestral presence as something active and future-facing. Her work stands as both an expression of whakapapa and an offering to those who come after, carrying forward stories, energies, and ways of seeing into a new time.