Taia o moko, hai hoa matenga mou. Only death can deprive you of your moko. It will be your ornament and your companion until your dying day. The Christchurch Arts Festival in association with ...

With a little ink, some stinging pain and a helping hand from the ancestors, Mark Kopua can heal a wounded soul. He is a modern master of an ancient art called ta moko, one of the world's oldest forms ...

Tattooing is more than skin deep - for small-town Waipatu man, Jahvan Apatu, the traditional Maori form, ta moko, embodies culture. Ta moko is historically ritualised and depicts an individual's ...

A ta moko artist trained by one of New Zealand's finest practitioners of Maori tattooing has opened a studio in Kaitaia. Raniera McGrath spent three years studying ta moko at Tairawhiti Polytechnic's ...

Henare (Henry) Brooking is a ta moko artist and teacher at the Eastern Institute of Technologies Toihoukura Maori Visual Arts School in Gisborne, New Zealand. The tattoo artist is one of the many ...

A matakiti (clairvoyant) once told Turumakina Duley that he had been a ta moko artist in another life. If you have had the privilege of seeing his work then you could almost believe it were true. Mr ...

Tā Moko is the traditional tattoo worn by the Maori of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Since the Maori people consider the head to be the most sacred part of the body, the most popular kind of Maori tattoo is ...

A Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi doctoral student claims 40 per cent of Maori women have or are thinking of getting a ta moko, but men have largely usurped the cultural practices around getting ...

At Ta Moko - A History on Skin four of New Zealand's finest artists will demonstrate the art of ta moko (tattoo). The artists will also conduct free talks each day, at 12.00pm and 2.00pm, looking at ...