Rūma pauni totoro ꩜ A Reaching Reading Room
2026–ongoing Rūma panui totoro is an unfurling reading room of Māori writing which takes the form of a koro: the bud of a fern unravelling.
This ongoing project aims to recover lineages of radical Māori publishing, and explore what it means to do so from here, in the colonial centre. It is interested in the diaporic qualities of print, and the way print publishing enables intimacy and insurgency through time and across borders.
The first version of the reading room took place at Outhouse Gallery over the summer. Otherwise, the material is available to view at my studio in Deptford, South East London. Send me an email if you’d like to check it out.
︎︎︎View the reading room catalogue (last updated Oct 2026)
This ongoing project aims to recover lineages of radical Māori publishing, and explore what it means to do so from here, in the colonial centre. It is interested in the diaporic qualities of print, and the way print publishing enables intimacy and insurgency through time and across borders.
The first version of the reading room took place at Outhouse Gallery over the summer. Otherwise, the material is available to view at my studio in Deptford, South East London. Send me an email if you’d like to check it out.
︎︎︎View the reading room catalogue (last updated Oct 2026)
Rūma pauni totoro ꩜ A Reaching Reading Room at Outhouse Gallery
Brunswick Park, London SE5 7RH, 25th June–12th July
For this first edition, Rūma panui totoro unfurled around two key periodicals on loan from the nearby Feminist Library (Peckham): Bitches, Witches & Dykes: a women’s liberation newspaper (1980–82) and Broadsheet: New Zealand’s Feminist Magazine (1971-1998). Building outward contextually, thematically and graphically, Rūma panui totoro uncovered roaming readings of this period of Māori feminist lesbian organising as it vibrates across time and space.
Alongside the reading room, the show catalogue included texts by Hana Pera Aoake, and Sorcha Thompson, Rami Rmeileh and Akram Salhab, exploring the role print publishing plays in indigenous sovereignty and solidarity movements from Aotearoa to Palestine.
Brunswick Park, London SE5 7RH, 25th June–12th July
For this first edition, Rūma panui totoro unfurled around two key periodicals on loan from the nearby Feminist Library (Peckham): Bitches, Witches & Dykes: a women’s liberation newspaper (1980–82) and Broadsheet: New Zealand’s Feminist Magazine (1971-1998). Building outward contextually, thematically and graphically, Rūma panui totoro uncovered roaming readings of this period of Māori feminist lesbian organising as it vibrates across time and space.
Alongside the reading room, the show catalogue included texts by Hana Pera Aoake, and Sorcha Thompson, Rami Rmeileh and Akram Salhab, exploring the role print publishing plays in indigenous sovereignty and solidarity movements from Aotearoa to Palestine.
︎ Photography by Emma Bentley Fox