Mana Wāhine

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Print sizes and editions

- Regular museum archival paper print - 780 x 521mm
(limited to 95)

Your unique limited edition fine art print
- Sofia Minson creates your exclusive signed print
- We ship for $25 in and from $50 internationally
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Original painting SOLD, oil on canvas, 1120 x 810mm (including frame), 2016

The story of

Sofia painted this woman from her imagination in order to honour her female tipuna (ancestors), the value and strength of women and explore ideas of culture, origins and whakapapa.

"Ko te matauranga, ko te kaha"

"Knowledge is power"

Māori feminism
a powerful concept related to Māori feminism and much more. It is the inherent integrity, status, spiritual prestige, wisdom, tikanga, presence and strength of being a Māori woman, as gifted from ancestors and gods. It is ...