Isiaha Te Rangatira Barlow (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whaoa, Ngāti Uenuku, English, Irish and Scots) has a Masters in Māori Visual Arts from Te Pūtahi-a-Toi at Massey University (2006).
After returning to the workshop of his teacher and mentor, Robert Jahnke, Isiaha Barlow is drawn back into the world of Toi Māori.