Kura Te Waru Rewiri has been painting since 1985. Born in Kaeo, Whangaroa, in the Far North of New Zealand in 1950, she is the eldest of nine children to Sam and Geneva Davis. She was educated at Northland College and Bay of Islands College. Her art teachers were Selwyn Wilson and Buck Nin respectively. While at Bay of Islands College in the late 1960s, Buck Nin arranged for her enrollment at the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury. There she gained the Diploma in Fine Art (hons) in painting and submitted a thesis on stone tool carving.

Kura has taught art since 1975, in secondary schools, tertiary institutions, universities and Whare Wananga. She is lecturing part-time in Maor...