Raukura turei biography of williams
Raukura Turei's current exhibition at Season, Takoto ai te marino: Te hokinga mai, explores her reconnection to whānau at Tīkapa Moana.
Meet Raukura Turei, an artist, mother, and architect at Monk McKenzie..
Inside story: Raukura Turei
She studied architecture and worked for top New Zealand firm Stevens Lawson Architects, she has appeared in films including The Dead Lands and Find Me a Māori Bride, exhibited her oil on paper works here and internationally… and she only just turned thirty.
Urbis caught up with the prolific Turei at the Auckland studio of fashion label Miss Crabb – a space she helped design – to talk art, architecture and balancing work and life as a young creative.
I read that your high school art teacher said she’d ‘string you from the roof’ if you didn’t study architecture… other than the threat, what else sparked your interest? I’d kind of grown up with building around me, but I was a total art kid and I just wanted to stay at school in my lunchtimes and paint; that was my happy place.
It was the physical act of making and drawing to find outcomes that I really loved for problem solving; architecture is great because it allows both sides