Robert Jahnke employs a range of media to create work that tackles issues of identity, colonisation and intercultural exchange, and to explore Māori creation narratives in a multidimensional way.
Read MoreJahnke's practice over the years has straddled design, illustration, animation and sculpture. Since his solo exhibition in 1990, Jahnke has maintained his practice as a sculptor with a number of commissions including the Ranginui Door at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Spinning Top at Woodward Street in Wellington, the entrance to Harrod's Sky Casino in Auckland, Twin Hulls at the University of Auckland Tamaki Campus, Waharoa and entrance for Mana Tamariki with Tennet and Brown Architects and concrete relief panels for St. Brigid's church in Feilding.
He is represented in a number of major collections including The Sir James Wallace Collection, Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland City Art Gallery, Jenny Gibbs, Kevin Roberts, and the Chartwell Trust among others.
Robert Jahnke was born in Waipiro Bay 1951. Currently lives and works in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Text courtesy PAULNACHE
