THE HORI

I walk in two worlds. Te ao Māori and Te Ao pākehā these tarau poto / shorts will speak to many who do the same and are a challenge to Māori and pakeha who don’t have an understanding of these worlds to give it a go. you might be surprised what you find out about yourself. This korero has been a constant chat & whakaaro in all of my mahi TOI in the last 10 years. Through the art work I have Been able to navigate these worlds alot easyer then most, at times it feels like a game of hopscotch but I te mutunga o te ra at the end of the day I try to keep both feet planted on the ground. I was stoked to get this inked in and finally bring these to you all this summer available now online as preorder. Chur @thehori #aoShorts 

KO TE AURAKI KE MATOU - WE ARE THE MAINSTREAM

WE R THE AWA

WE R THE ROTO

WE R THE MOANA

WE R MAORI

KAUPAPA PIECE OF THIS YEAR IS A WERO / CHALLENGE FOR MAORI TO E TU STAND UP AND BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY MAORI. THE FIRST OF OUR 2021 DESIGNS A DEVELOPMENT OF OUR HORI LOGO INTO MAORI.

I walk in two worlds. Te ao Māori and Te Ao pākehā these tarau poto / shorts will speak to many who do the same and are a challenge to Māori and pakeha who don’t have an understanding of these worlds to give it a go. you might be surprised what you find out about yourself. This korero has been a constant chat & whakaaro in all of my mahi TOI in the last 10 years. Through the art work I have Been able to navigate these worlds alot easyer then most, at times it feels like a game of hopscotch but I te mutunga o te ra at the end of the day I try to keep both feet planted on the ground. I was stoked to get this inked in and finally bring these to you all this summer available now online as preorder. Chur @thehori #aoShorts WAHINE WOMENS SHORTS IN LINEN 

 KO TE AURAKI KE MATOU - WE ARE THE MAINSTREAM

WE R THE AWA

WE R THE ROTO 

WE R THE MOANA 

WE R MAORI 

KAUPAPA PIECE OF THIS YEAR IS A WERO / CHALLENGE FOR MAORI TO E TU STAND UP AND BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY MAORI. THE FIRST OF OUR 2021 DESIGNS A DEVELOPMENT OF OUR HORI LOGO INTO MAORI. 

One of our more popular designs "te wahine toa" is now available on our crews. A statement - remember whanau we all have our own pukenga and skills and ways we champion te reo maori and our māoritanga , wahine ma, tane ma, Ia ma ngati Humana 

kia kaha 

 

 

HORI - Our HORI CHURTs (which isn't Māori for shirts but close) are made for that time the Missus or Mr needs you to dress up a bit.

Flano churt

Buckys on ??? I used to wake up saying this most mornings haha now I just put it on my mahunga . 

So keep your lungs safe and your head covered and get a Bucky down ya . 

churness 

 

hori 

Army vest Hand made Woman’s cropped cotton vest with the iconic Guns and flags on front and back with tino patch.

TE TOKEN PIWAIWAKA, TIRAIRAKA, PIWAKAWAKA OR FANTAIL 

This originally was apart of the 2013 mozzie collection which spoke of maori moving to australia to create better lives for their whanau due to the money they were able to make in te whenua moemoea the dream land as opposed to aotearoa or the land of the long white cloud . Upon our hokinga or return to N.Z. in 2015 we changed the design to the NZD currency.

This anthem design was a 6 year collaboration with my brother from another mother Nick McFarlane. Our whakaaro was for him to do the pakeha words of the anthem and me the maori words. I think it is fitting that he did the white kupu or words in te ao maori represented by te po (darkness) and i did the black kupu in te ao pakeha. We both represent that ongoing partnership between our worlds, as we are maori and pakeha artists i feel we need to share parts of our culture and that there is a partnership between both worlds and hopefully this will bring more understanding.

AVAILABLE AS A SINGLE A3 A2 A1 PRINT 

JOINED A2 OR JOINED A1 ONLY AS IN PHOTOS 

nga mihi 

hori 

THIS POI E PRINT IS A CELEBRATION OF THE BEST DAMN MAORI WAIATA IN TE AO (THE WORLD). MADE FAMOUS BY THE PATEA MAORI CLUB IT SAT AT NUMBER ONE FOR 4 WEEKS AND 22 WEEKS ON THE CHARTS

WRITTEN BY NGOI PEWHANGI AND MUSIC BY DELVANIUS PRIME

$500 FOR THE PRINT ONLY 

LIMITED SIGNED AND NUMBERED AND NUMBERED 25 PANGO 25 MA 

SEND US A MESSAGE FOR FRAMING 

CHURP HORI 

Boy you have heaps of potential is inspired by one of my favourite NZ films BOY and is something our Maori Tama need to remember

that "boy you have heaps of potential"

CREATED FOR THAT WELCOME PIECE IN YOUR WHARE OR THAT WAHINE WOMEN IN YOUR LIFE WHO GETS SHIT DONE . 

AVAILABLE IN MANY SIZES BUT ALSO AS A CORRIGATED IRON PIECE ON EITHER BLACK, WHITE OR RED. EXAMPLES IN PHOTOS 

 

NGA MIHI 

 

HORI 

175 years ago our tupuna Te Rauparaha No Ngati toa was kidnapped and arrested by governor grey. though he is more known for his Haka "ka mate"  he was actually one of the most influential chiefs in Aotearoa known for his ruthlessness, savvy, entrepreneurial mind he was also one of the first political prisoners in our country .

like many of our maori leaders in the 1800s 1900s they were taken by the crown because they had influence among maori. This scared the crown and they were afraid of an uprising that would shatter their colonial ideas . It worked. 

175 years later maori now have the highest incarceration rate in Aotearoa our male over 50 percent of the prison population and female over 60 - this stems directly from colonisation . 

last year we did our te reo offender exhibition this was one of the main pieces that sat in the historic jail we had it in . it shows the queen with a firm hand on the lock which represents the crowns position,  our chief as a representation of maori locked up. below on the right side sits the time before colonisation. the left represents after. 

SIGNED ARTIST PRINTS 

 

 

FOR THAT LITTLE SWEETY PAI IN YOUR WHANAU

THIS PRINT IS ALSO FROM A FAVOURITE NZ FILM - THE WHALE RIDER 

PAIKEA IS A WAHINE TOA IN THE MAKING, WHO BREAKS ALL THE "RULES" TIKANGA  TO BECOME A RANGATIRA WITH-IN HER HAPU - A LESSON TO ALL KOTIRO TO KIA KAHA AND EVERYTHING WILL BE SWEET AS. 

PAI ALSO MEANS GOOD IN MAORI 

NGA MIHI HORI 

This 2013 collection looked at issues of our maori people moving to Australia. Those who have taken the move have been labeled Mozzy or maori ozzys.  The issues that I wanted to have a conversation about was the disconnection from whakapapa /geneology  that some of these people now have with their whenua / land , whanau and maoritanga. We now have 3rd 4th and even 5th generations that have grown up in another people's land who may or may not grown up with matauranga maori want to reconnect. For the ones who do , hoki mai ..hoki mai ki to ukaipo ki to whenua tapu ,ki aotearoa. 

For the ones who think they are better off, kei te pai but i believe there is so much more than making good crust for your whanau. 

It also touches on the topic of one indigenous race being on another people's land. 

"PATUA TE TANIWHA PATUA TE WHAKAMA" THIS WAS SHOT BY MY GOOD FRIEND MATT DRAPPER MY WHAKARO WAS I WAS MY OWN TANIWHA . THE WHAKATAUKI OR PROVERB IS ABOUT BEING TO OVER COME YOUR FEAR YOUR TANIWHA IN YOUR LIFE . MINE WAS BEING WHAKAAMA OF MY CULTURE AND THE FACT I COULD SPEAK TE REO. BECAUSE OF THIS FEAR OF NOT FITTING IN TO TE AO PAKEHA OR THE PAKEHA WORLD I SPENT MANY OF MY TEENAGE YEARS AND 20S BEING DISCONNECTED TO WHANAU WHAKAPAPA AND TE AO MAORI SOMETHING I DEEPLY REGRET. FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS I HAVE BEGAN THE JOURNEY BACK TO MY UKAIPO ROOTS KI TOKU WHANAU FAMILY ME TOKU TURANGAWAEWAE AND AS A FATHER I WILL NOT ALLOW MY TAMARIKI TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID.