Taurima

Taurima - the gorgeous, crochet-like neon artworks floating above Elliott Street - return in 2025 for the Matariki ki te Manawa programme.

Aucklanders and visitors will see pātaka kai / food storehouse symbolism suspended above the street in quirky fluoro-neon art created by Lissy Robinson-Cole (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine), Rudi Robinson-Cole (Waikato, Ngāruahine, Ngāti Pāoa, Te Arawa), Ataahua Papa (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Ngāti Mahuta) and Angus Muir Design.

Evidence indicates that people have harvested and provided food at the location of Elliott Street for hundreds of years, and so the Taurima artworks mark the street's origins in in sustenance and hospitality.