Hariata Ropata Tangahoe lives and works in Otaki on the Kapiti Coast.
Anahara te Pono (Faithful Brown Angel) was painted in 2008. Hariata showed 14 sandstone tablets at the City Gallery in Wellington, 2000, in an exhibition called Anahera Te Pono. She re-invented the Christian tradition of the 14 Stations of the Cross and turned the gallery into a chapel.
Hariata was born in 1952 and is of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa, Te Atiawa and Welsh and Italian descent.
Hariata first exhibited with Bowen Galleries in 1985.
She is completing a Diploma in Mäori Studies and Hariata is building a working wakatete from a rimu log found on the beach at Te Horo in 2003.