Gary Wilson

Gary is a Whitianga wood carver trained at Te Awhina marae, Motueka. Gary spent 2½ years "immersion" carving on the marae and on a large waka (canoe) which sailed from Picton to Wellington in 1991.

Gary has won awards in the New Zealand woodskills competition including a first prize for the taurapa (stern post of a waka) currently on sale at The Bone Studio. He works mainly with kauri and totara and has retrieved old logs found in the Coromandel bush.

Gary Wilson

Taurapa	Taurapa Detail	Tauihu

Poupou #1	Moko Head	Poupou #2


Wakahuia, a container for huia feathers (extinct bird) and taonga (treasurers) usually hung from rafters, hence carved fully underneath.		Wakahuia handle