“There is little or no information recording where the taonga came from, who they belonged to, who made them, what their names were, or how they were used.” — Matariki Williams on how the majority of taonga stored in collections have been separated from their stories.
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“It is artists, and specifically Māori and other Indigenous artists, who have prompted me to always consider how I am as a visitor on other whenua, and how I must understand the impact of visitors and foreigners in the same way that I would for people to our whenua.” — Curator Matariki Williams.
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“The people who have marched before me, who have occupied spaces before me: their feet taking steps for change, their bodies on the line, their voices hoarse with conviction . . . they are the iceberg below the surface.”
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