Professor Ahorangi Derek Lardelli ONZM

(Ngāti Porou (Ngāti Konohi) and Rongowhakaata (Ngai te Aweawe)) 

Professor Derek Lardelli is a visual Māori artist, Tā Moko artist, painter, carver, kapa haka performer, orator, composer, graphic designer, researcher of whakapapa and oral histories, kaikōreo and educationalist.  He received a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate award in 2004 and was awarded the honour of Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2008. 

Derek is regarded as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s finest exponents of the arts and has been prominent in explaining and promoting Māori arts to audiences in New Zealand, the Pacific and around the world.  Derek continues to promote language revitalization within an arts context, portraying a future pathway for our youth. 

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