"Koko" (Ice cream Bean)

Rarotongan Basalt (Toka Maori)

"Raparapa" Star Fruit

Rarotongan Basalt (Toka Maori)

"Toki" (Adze Blade)

Rarotongan Basalt (Toka Maori)

"Stone platers"

Rarotongan Basalt (Toka Maori)

" The gift is the present"

In the here and now, in this moment.

Mahogany
2 panels 150mm x 300mm

"To'roa (Whale)

Pasific Mahogany

"Kumete' (Bowl)

Rarotongan Basalt

"The Mother"
Papatuanuku, papa, Gaia, Mather nature....
Conceive, nurture, protect.
Rarotongan basalt
2m 1400kg

"Aka Maroiroi”
(To be brave enough)
Created as part of the Tātai Honga Carving Symposium 2024 Rarotonga
Contemplation of the great Pacific migration from Raiatea to Aotearoa.
The idea of an unknown future. Leaving a place that is known and understood, and embarking on an unknown voyage to a new horizon.
To create a new future, a new life with new understanding.
Our current place, this moment in time, is defined by the way we contemplate/interpret our past. Our future is what we choose to take forward with us.
The past is never a sentence, but lessons. The present is a place of being, with moments of peace. The future shouldn't be one of fear but an uncharted unknown adventure.
A future greater than self.

"Trinity kumete"

This Kumete (bowl) is inspired by the island of Rarotonga. there is a balance in threes.
Rarotonga has a strong Christian follow from when the missionaries arrived here some 200 years ago.
The father, the son and the holy spirit is the trinity know my most people. There are many other trinity's that are
also held important to people and these are also celebrated in this kumete.
Items come and go from a kumete, some for a moment and other will stay for a long time with others passing.
This is the same with people in Rarotonga.


Basalt (toka maori )
300mm x 300mm x 70mm 7.7kg

Brent holley

"Hear our voice"

The voices of champions within our communities.

Au wood (Tree Hibiscus)
230mm x 200mm x 450mm 11.5kg

"The voyage"

Project forward to your destination. See it in your future.
But don't loose sight of the present, sacrificing the moments and the learning here and now, at his moment.
This is the voyage, the understanding, the clarity, the knowing, the being.
And will ultimatly define the destination.

Basalt (toka maori)
Mahogany base
400mm x 55mm x 75mm >1kg

"Touch Stone"

The Rarotonga Basalt (Toka Maori) hold the history of the history of the Island from the moment of its creation.
Its holds your intention and your mana when you touch it.

Basalt (toka Maori)
120mm x 120mm x 50mm >1kg

Brent Holley

"Patu"

New Zealand Maori war cub

Basalt (Toka Maori)
370mm x 170mm 30mm 1.5kg

Brent Holley