The submission deadline for the country's first Māori artist award of its kind with a $20,000 prize is only five weeks away.
New Māori artists have until March 5 to submit their entries for the inaugural Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award, launched in August 2020 by the Office of the Kiingitanga and New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata.
Artists will be challenged to create artworks of their tūpuna (ancestors), using any visual medium.
Emerging Māori artists, with whakapapa connections to the depicted tūpuna, can submit either an artwork created in the past two years or an entirely new piece of work.