Fleur Palmer is a Māori ceramic artist, affiliated to the tribes of Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, and Ngāti Awa. Working with uku, she hand-builds vessels that give form to reclaiming presence, restoring story, and honouring continuity.
Mahuika is the atua of fire. She contemplates a fire bowl. Her pit firing embues her with a carbon blackness, and alchemical exchange between fire earth and smoke.
Hinteiwaiwa is the atua of pregnant women who assists in the safe passage of children into the world. .
Handcrafted uku ceramic work.
Hineraukatauri is the atua of music and sound. She represents breath, vibration, and the emergence of expression from silence — sound arising from the space between worlds: human and insect, silence and song, from Te Pō to Te Ao Mārama. She is personified in the case moth (the cocoon shape of which gives the pūtōrino its form).
