Star Gossage

Her ancestor Rahui Te Kiri was evicted by the British from Little Barrier Island in 1896[2]

Gossage is of Ngati Manuhiri/Wai, Ngati Ruanui, French, English and Portuguese descent and the great-great-granddaughter of Rahui Te Kiri and daughter of the artists Peter and Tilly Gossage.[3] Her Māori heritage is core to her work and following her graduation in 1995 she returned to her ancestral home in Pakiri, north of Auckland, to establish her current home and studio.

In 1995, Gossage received a Diploma of Fine Arts from Otago Polytechnic School of Art. During her studies, she experimented with a wide variety of media including film and theatre production (including play-writing) and was inspired by, and worked with, other innovative young Māori art students.[4]

Gossage received critical acclaim for her 2014 exhibition Five Maori Painters at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki,[5] exhibiting alongside Robyn Kahukiwa, Kura Te Waru Rewiri, Emily Karaka, and Saffronn Te Ratana.[6] With regular exhibitions in New Zealand and throughout the world, her work is held several collections including at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, James Wallace Arts Trust, and University of Auckland.[7]

In 2014 Gossage won the Arts Foundation's New Generation Award[8] and was nominated for the Singapore Signature Art Prize from Singapore Art Museum.[9] Gossage participated in the Mana Moana residency in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2016, part of a cultural exchange between Hawaii and New Zealand, and supported through the Creative New Zealand International Indigenous Artform Exchange.[10]

• Angela Morton Collection, Takapuna Library
• E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
• Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena
• Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa