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Story Teller - $8,500 NZD
Acrylic on Board, 60 x 60cm
The true storyteller is all knowledge and all wisdom; they can be whoever they want to be.
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Children of Tane - $8,000 NZD
Acrylic on Canvas, 75 x 75cm
My mother told me when I was a child that certain trees would bleed human blood therefore "do not damage them". They were the oldest trees in the forest. Tane is the radiance that creates growth on the planet and these are the children of Tane.
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Daughter of the Earth Mother - $5,500 NZD
Acrylic on Canvas, 51 x 51cm
I wanted to make a statement of the lava resting inside the body of the Earth Mother. They create our volcanic mountains that are either male or female.
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Call of Taranaki - $550,000 NZD
Acrylic on Paper, 168 x 127cm
"I call this piece my 'icon painting'. It expresses everything I believe in. The spiritual bond I have with the land, my ancestral mountain Taranaki, and my ancestors" - Darcy Nicholas
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Red Moon Rising Sun - $15,000 NZD
Acrylic on Board, 60 x 60cm
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Matua - Parent - $12,500 NZD
Acrylic on Canvas, 121.9 x 91.4cm
I wanted to create a vision of eternity that reflected all time and space in one image. The spiral patterns reflected the solar systems and the black stars the energy sources that absorb life forms. As I created the image it took on the shape of a strange creature and beyond that shape were other shapes. I realize that to conceptualize eternity is probably beyond the abilities of the human mind.
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Fighting Spirits - $5,500 NZD
Acrylic on Board, 60 x 60cm
The Warrior who goes into battle is a combination of physical and spiritual. While he is physical in what he does his power is in his spirit.
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Tamarau of the Heavens - $3,500 NZD
Acrylic on Canvas, 51 x 51cm
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Sacred Woman - $6,500 NZD
Acrylic on Canvas, 50 x 50cm
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Hine Nui Te Po - $7,000 NZD
Acrylic on Board, 59 x 59cm
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Taranaki Warrior - $8,000 NZD
Acrylic on board, 75 x 53cm
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Girl From Mana Island - $7,500 NZD
Acrylic on Art Paper, 77 x 56cm
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Ahuone, Titama, Nui Te Po - $12,500 NZD
Acrylic on Canvas, 121.9 x 91.4cm
"I wanted to paint the creation story and life cycle from Hine Ahuone - the birth of life, to Hine Titama - the mature life, and Hine Nui Te Po - the guardian of the spirit world" - Darcy Nicholas
Kahui Maunga, Te Atiawa, Ngati Ruanui/Tangahoe, Pirirakau, Ngaiterangi, Ngati Ranginui, Ngati Haua, and other affiliated tribes.
Lives in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Darcy Nicholas is a leading contemporary Maori painter, sculptor, writer, curator, events manager, and commentator on Maori issues. He has been actively involved in the contemporary Maori art movement since the late 1960’s. He has exhibited throughout New Zealand, Australia, Africa, United States, France, India, Britain, Canada and has been part of several international touring exhibitions of Maori art. His work is held in many private collections throughout the world as well as city galleries in New Zealand, the National gallery of Scotland, and the Volkerkrunde museum in Germany.
In 1984 he won a Fulbright Cultural Award to observe African American and Native American art. He has travelled to the United States several times since then and has been responsible for several major cultural exchanges between Native American and Maori artists. This was formerly recognised in a citation by the American Ambassador to New Zealand in 2009.
In 1997 he project-directed the design and building of the Pataka Museum in Porirua City, basing its design on ideas he had picked up in Africa, Japan, Britain and the United States. It won National and international recognition for its innovative design, events, projects and exhibitions.
In 2005 he won the Creative Wellington Award for his services towards the arts in the greater Wellington region, and in 2010 was awarded the Queens Service Order (QSO) for services to Museums.
