Post #292457 by Basement Kahuna on Fri, Mar 16, 2007 4:22 PM

People really should let the quality of their work do the talking ; that's the way it used to be. Nobody can argue with the quality of the carvings in those photos. Cliff Whiting is amazing. The work of the late Pineamine Taiapa is also well worth taking a good look at. He is one of my greatest personal inspirations whenever carving in the Maori style. Remarkable man in general, a great carver, author, and WWII hero. He worked on over 100 meeting houses in his lifetime, and if you've ever carved one, you know the magnitude of that body of work seems insurmountable. http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/English/WhatsOn/LongTermExhibitions/TheMarae.htm http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecclestone/131826443/ http://www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/Publications/1997/PublicArtInChristchurch/NgaKeteWananga/

[ Edited by: Basement Kahuna 2007-03-18 19:34 ]