PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Baye Pewhairangi Riddell (Ngati Porou and Te Whanau-a-Ruataupare) became a full-time potter in 1974, the first Maori artist to commit to this profession. In 1986, with Manos Nathan, he was a co-founder of Nga Kaihanga Uku, the national Maori clayworkers' collective. In 1989 he and Nathan were awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to establish an exchange with Native American artists. He was awarded the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Fellowship in 2011.
