Anaheke Metua

Anaheke Metua is Ngai Te Rangi woman, born and bred in Aotearoa, NZ, relocating to Australia in the late 1980’s and currently residing on Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island. For the past 20 years Anaheke has dedicated herself to learning the foundations of basketry and arts facilitation, expressing her own unique voice as a contemporary fibre artist and weaver inspired by the stories of her Polynesian ancestors and restoration of her Maoritanga (Indigenous wisdom).

As an exhibiting artist, she demonstrates skill in the construction and composition of interlocking a wide variety of natural fibres in an alternating pattern to create 2D & 3D woven sculpture and contemporary fibre art.

Her works in ‘Many Moods’ speak to the observations and daily rhythms of the night’s sky, seasonal sand migrations and the fruiting and flowering patterns of the native Bangalow Palm on Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island.