Charlotte Graham

Te Kawerau ā Maki, Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Tamaoho, Te Ākitai Waiohua, Ngāti Kotimana

Charlotte Graham is a renowned conceptual multi-disciplinary artist, Māori design lead for Ngāti Whanaunga and arts educator. With a practice spanning over twenty five years, Graham currently sits on Te Ātinga, the Visual Art’s Committee with the Māori arts organisation
Toi Māori Aotearoa and is a board member of Te Uru Gallery in Titirangi, Tāmaki. She is a member
of Toi Whakaata, founder of Hue Maramatanga and Te Puna Toi o Tāmaki.
Graham holds a Post-graduate Diploma Māori Visual Arts in 2008 (honours), a post-graduate
Diploma in Teaching, Auckland College of Education 2003 and Rumaki Reo Certificate from Te Wananga Takiura, 2008

Grahams art practice explores collective well- being, healing and the interrelationships of
natural life in Te Ao Māori (the Māori world). Her most recent project, ‘Ngā Rau Pou a Maki’
commissioned by Toi Taiao Whakatairanga, Auckland University, a 13.8 m long work is inspired by the many mountain peaks of Maki.
Graham’s works can be found in many public and private collections nationally and abroad.
She works full time as a visual artist, has four children and currently lives in her tribal area, Te Wao nui o Tiriwa, Tāmaki.