Joe Kemp

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...

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