Poster for the art exhibition 'Rānana' featuring five Māori artists at Jessica McCormack, with an image of a Māori carved pendant, date and location details.

Decorative interior arrangement with a colorful abstract painting, a white fur and embroidered handbag on a black stand, a white ceramic bird sculpture, and a white ornate fireplace mantel against a dark blue wall.

A framed portrait of a woman wearing a red headwrap and a white outfit hanging on a dark blue wall. Below it, a decorative wooden curve with a small sculpture on top, and an orange and blue patterned chair in the foreground.

Rānana, the Māori transliteration of London, foregrounds the city’s role not as a seat of empire but as a place of gathering, where practices, voices, and ancestral currents converge.

The exhibition brings together five Māori artists: Maia Kreisler, Neke Moa, Jude Te Punga Nelson, Isaac Te Awa, and Jade Townsend. All these artists place an emphasis on Māori forms of adornment. Using painting, weaving, sculpting, and carving, they extend on Māori knowledge systems and highlight the multiplicity of perspectives within the vibrant field of Māori art-making. Adornment here is both personal and political: a declaration of identity, a shield of resistance, and a celebration of beauty.