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Jace
Dean-Holder
My name is Jace Holder.
Ko Piripiri toku maunga
Ko Totaranui toku moana
Ko Waitohi toku awa
Ko Arapaoa toku moutere
Ko Waikawa toku marae
Ko Te Atiawa toku iwi
Ko Raureti Holder raua ko
Wairemana Riwaka oku tīpuna
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My work is genuine handmade, and each piece is blessed by myself on completion.
I make contemporary Māori bone carvings from the Gold Coast, Australia.
I was born in wellington to a Māori father and a Kiwi mother and moved to the Gold Coast in my early teenage years. My father passed on his carving tools and some secrets of the trade in the early 2000s.
Through a lot of self-learning and practice, in Dec 2022 I released my art to the world through different platforms online, and have since managed to secure a spot for my art to be displayed & sold in REI Māori, a Māori inspired art gallery in Lyttelton, Christchurch NZ.
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Massey University Artist In Residence 2022, Producer of the Year 2021, APRA Professional Development Award Winner 2019, Artist Laureate of New Zealand 2015, Three times winner of the NZ Country Music Song of the Year Award, Awarded NZ Country Music Album Of The Year, finalist for the coveted NZ APRA Silver Scroll Award, and Winner of the One Man Band Competition in Zurich. His seminal influence and work with Marlon Williams on their “Sad But True” series as well as his visionary production on Tami Neilson’s acclaimed album’s “Dynamite”, “Don’t Be Afraid” and “Chickaboom!” have earned him great praise from the media and huge respect amongst his peers.
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