He is a modern master of an ancient art called ta moko, one of the world's oldest forms of tattooing and a renewed source of pride for New Zealand's indigenous Maori people.

Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art, Deidre Brown, Ngarino Ellis and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, University of Chicago Press, 616pp, £44 (hb). This volume covers 800 years of Māori art ...

Until the 1870s, Maori men of New Zealand etched deep tattoos over their entire faces. Patterns were chiseled into the skin to create parallel ridges and grooves, much like designs cut into wood ...

A large well-formed Maori adze, made of argillite, was found at Lake Onoke by a woman picking up driftwood and is being kept at Aratoi Museum of Art and History in Masterton.

A Maori tattoo artist's perfect day in Wellington. Tā moko practitioner Taryn Beri shares the best sights, bites, and art in the city.

An oil painting of Maori elder Wharekauri Tahuna by Charles Frederick Goldie sold for a record-breaking $3.75 million, becoming the most valuable Maori portrait in New Zealand art history.

"Semu's work grapples with Western art history and leads us towards a Maori understanding of the events surrounding their ancestors' migratory voyage to New Zealand," NGV director Tony Ellwood said.

The painting, sold for NZ$3.75m (£1.7m), was first shown in Paris, France, in 1939 and shows a kaumātua (tribe elder) with an elaborate moko, which is the traditional Maori system of tattooing ...

The beautiful and unique world of Maori art is set to return to grace New Zealand television screens as art series KETE ARONUI premieres its second series on Maori Television, starting on ...

Jeffrey Addison likens his puppet show about ancient Maori rock art to the process of cryogenics. "We are bringing to life images that have been 'frozen' on cave walls for a thousand if not more ...