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Aidan Taira Geraghty (Kāi Tahu, Ngāi Tūāhuriri) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ōtepoti with a background in graffiti, street art and design. Geraghty pursues interests in his bicultural heritage and into how a sense of displacement is felt by many generations of Tākata Whenua. He is also interested in using recycled materials from urban environments, breathing new life into discarded objects that previously had austere, colonial objectives, like railway sleepers, school desks and farming equipment. He studied at Dunedin School of Art/Te Pūkenga and recent public works include Kaituna (Kensington, Ōtepoti, 2023) and Hei Maumaharatanga (Te Whare Wānaka o Ōtākou, 2022).

Moewai Marsh (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Huirapa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa) lives in Ōtepoti and studied at Dunedin School of Art/Te Pūkenga. Marsh works with materials sourced from her rūnaka and ancestral landscapes, such as earth pigments and invasive plants, to make paper and paint, deepening her connection to whenua through these processes and treating each resource as a taoka. Recent exhibitions and projects include Matairaki with Megan Brady, Antony Deaker and Ana Iti (Blue Oyster, 2022) and Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2021).