ABOUT
Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss b.1986 nee (Wickliffe)
(Maori, Niuean) - Ngapuhi, Tainui/ Alofi, Liku
Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss 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 Wallace Arts Trust. Cora-Allan 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. She works from her home studio in Swanson, West Auckland, is a founding member of BC COLLECTIVE and is a maker of Hiapo (Niuean Barkcloth).
Cora-Allan is solely represented by Bartley & Company in Wellington.
SELECTED SHOWS
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
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)
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
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
Recipient of McCahon House Residency 2021 2020
AUT School of Art and Design Postgraduate Research Award 2014
Creative New Zealand Te Waka Toi recipient 2013
Keir Trust Scholarship Award 2004-2008
RSA Community Award 2004
AUT School of Art and Design Postgraduate Research Award 2014
Creative New Zealand Te Waka Toi recipient 2013
Keir Trust Scholarship Award 2004-2008
RSA Community Award 2004
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/
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/
coraallan.wickliffe@gmail.com / Auckland, New Zealand
