Joe Kemp is an experienced Māori wood carver from the Bay of Plenty. His iwi (tribal connections) are Ngāi Tahu, Ngāpuhi, and Te Arawa (Ngāti Mākino). His standing and wall-mounted sculptures depict human forms and faces emerging from the wood. These works give life back to all these individual trees that stood as ancient forests and gave life [to others], once upon a time...