Briar Pomana

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writer

Briar Pomana is a mokopuna of Rakaipaaka and Kahungunu. Raised in Hawkes Bay, she is an aspiring filmmaker and writer with work that focuses specifically on a her intimate ties with whānau and whakapapa. She is a graduate of the faculty of Te Ara Poutama at AUT where she studied Māori Development, majoring in Māori Media and Cinematic Arts. Her ultimate dream is to make stuff her family and friends enjoy and live back on her whenua.

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Art28.02.24

Wharenui Harikoa is what dreams are made of

Briar Pomana (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) falls down the enticing crochet rabbit hole of artists Lissy Robinson Cole and Rudi Robinson, reflecting on the role ringatoi Māori play in our current realities and beyond.

Screen14.05.22

C*ntry Calendar

Country Calendar was one of Briar Pomana’s comfort television shows. She grapples with the realisation it romanticises colonial cottage-core lifestyle on what once was Indigenous land.

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