ABOUT

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Cora-Allan b.1986 
​(Maori, Niuean) Ngāpuhi, Ngātitumutumu / Alofi, Liku

Cora-Allan is a multidisciplinary artist of Māori and Niue descent, originally from Waitakere. In recent years her practice has focused on her efforts to revive the art form of Hiapo, prior to this she completed her Masters in Visual Art and Design in Performance from AUT (2013), also receiving a AUT Postgraduate Deans award for her research. She has exhibited her work throughout Aotearoa and internationally including Australia, Niue, England and Canada. Her work is a part of major collections including The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland War Memorial Museum and The Chartwell trust. CA was recently awarded a McCahon House Residency (2021) the Creative New Zealand Pacific Heritage Artist award (2020) and received Annual Arts Grant funding to focus full time on her Hiapo practice in 2021. Her newest project Encountering Aotearoa opens at Dunedin Public Art Gallery in August, 2023 and will tour Aotearoa till 2025.

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SELECTED SHOWS

2023
Aotearoa Art fair, Auckland with Bartley & Company Art
Cloth group show, Masterworks Art Gallery
National Contemporary Art Award finalist, Waikato art museum 

2022
Oceania now, Christies Paris
From Otītori Bay Rd, Te Uru Contemporary Gallery, Auckland (solo)
Histories on Hiapo, Bartley and Company, Wellington (solo)
Kauri ora, All press studio, Auckland
Unveil, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland (solo)
In Return, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland
Her heirlooms in my garden, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland - Group show

2021
Love and Lost, Auckland Museum War Memorial Group Exhibition
Roll with me, Fresh Gallery, Otara
Flowers from Niue, Bartley and Company 

2020
Moana Legacy, Tautai Gallery, Auckland
Pacific samplers, Bartley and Company, Wellington
Remember with me, Grey Place, Auckland 
From the ground up, Dowse, Wellington
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2019 
​Niue Arts and Cultural festival 2019 - Exhibition at Fatahega Lodge
The Layover with Edith Amituanai and Louisa Afoa - curated by Lana Lopesi, Artspace, Auckland
The Space Between Us, Toronto,Imaginative Film Festival
From the Archives, Tim Melville Gallery, Auckland
Returns and Transits, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Solid as a Rock, Corban Estate Arts Centre
Nectar, Mangere Arts Centre (Curated with Maddie Gifford)
The Space between us, Blakdot Gallery in partnership with Tautai Pacific Arts Trust, Melbourne

2018​

Generation Housing NZ - Before they come, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland
What we do at home - PDX to AKL, BC COLLECTIVE - St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
Ipukarea group exhibition- Tacit gallery, Hamilton, NZ
Rongorongo group exhibition - Barrel shed, Corban Estate Arts Centre
Everything is Ka Pai, Dunedin Public Art Gallery Window, Dunedin
Reliving Hiapo: Works in progress, Nathan Homestead, Auckland

2017
Generation Housing NZ, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
Neighbourhood Exhibition, Corban Estate Arts Centre
Estuary Ecology Prize Exhibition - finalist, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland

2016
Table top design competition, Selected Finalist, Lakehouse Gallery, Auckland
Spring runoff – MST Festival, Calgary, Canada
Fifty Shade of Blak, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne, Fringe Festival Best Visual Arts Exhibition 2016
Offstage 7, Artspace, Auckland
Found Footing, Whipper Snapper Gallery, Toronto
Greetings from Canada, RM Gallery, Auckland 
 
2015
Dusky Maiden, Elephant Artist Relief, Art Conference, Calgary, Canada
#HUI (Miseducation series), Untitled Art Society +15 Window space, Calgary, Canada
 
2014
Electric Waka, TeTuhi Art Gallery, Auckland
My Fale in the mountains, #Island time, Curated by Lana Lopesi, Auckland, New Zealand
From us to you, Moutain Standard Time festival in Calgary, Canada
Off the wall, Axe Neo 7, Quebec, Canada
A moment from 52 Sunline Avenue, Creative Time Summit, Nickle gallery in Calgary, Canada
From where I stand, Convergence Summit Banff Arts Centre, Banff, Canada
 
2013
Exotic weeds, in collaboration with Shannon Brett, Kick Arts Gallery, Cairns, Australia
Sole project, Art station, Auckland
Offstage, Art space, Auckland
Talkweek, AUT Art and Design building, Auckland
Whetu-Whenu-Whenua, Lopdell house, Auckland
Site Unseen – supporting performance in collaboration with Darcell Apelu, Lopdell house, Auckland
NgaRangatahitoa project, Wellsford library, Wellsford
If you were to live here, Auckland Triennale, AUT project, Auckland Art Gallery
Close to home, Tautai tertiary show, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
 
2012
Fry For Kai – invited by Local time artist collective, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
One night only, Opanuku studio, Auckland
Sole project, Art Station, Auckland
Talk week, AUT Art and Design building, Auckland
Tourists will be tourists, in collaboration with Jean Melesaine, AUT Art and design building, Auckland
This must be the place, Tautai tertiary show, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland
Graduate Exhibition, AUT Art and Design building, Auckland (performance installation)

AWARDS

Te Whare Hera Residency 2021
Recipient of McCahon House Residency 2021                                     
CNZ Pacific Heritage Artist award 2021
Springboard trust Award, Arts Foundation NZ 2021
Wanaka Arts Society Residency 2022

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Media links

Tagata Pasifika
​https://tpplus.co.nz/arts-music/cora-allan-wickliffe-niue-artist-whos-revived-the-art-of-hiapo-from-extinction/

Coconet
https://www.thecoconet.tv/creative-natives/island-arts/tapa-of-the-pacific-niuean-hiapo/

Spinoff
https://thespinoff.co.nz/art/07-07-2020/from-the-moana-to-k-road-a-new-auckland-home-for-artists-of-the-pacific/

Pantograph punch
https://pantograph-punch.com/posts/remember-with-me

Unofficial online journal
https://www.unofficialjournal.online/journal/reawakening-sleeping-giants

Viva
https://www.viva.co.nz/article/culture-travel/hiapo-artist-cora-allan-wickcliffe-is-reviving-lost-niuean-art-form/

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