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Vianney Parata (Te Ātiawa Ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a multidisciplinary toi Māori practitioner with an eye for blending traditional methods of cubism within a toi Māori design style.
Born and raised in Porirua, Parata attended Toimairangi, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and graduated in 2018 with a degree in Te Maunga Kura Toi (Māori Visual Arts). She went on to her exhibit her work — Ko Tōku Waikanaetanga Tēnei — later that year with her closest whānau.
Parata is a former tāmoko apprentice to Sian-Montgomery-Neutze (Ngāi Tara, Muaūpoko) and in 2019 became a full-time tāmoko artist and toi Māori practitioner.
Throughout 2023, Parata has also been working to develop the toi Māori capabilities of her iwi, partnering with Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Toa and teaching emerging Ngāti Toa artists toi ā-iwi alongside how to be sustainable — with the pakihi skills to create ongoing financial freedom for them and their whānau.
A māmā to her three beautiful girls, Parata is dedicated to creating a full, expansive life for her whānau.
