Background
He learned weaving from his mother and grandmother.
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Karl Leonard
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2004 Diploma in Māori Quantitative Methods, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Ōtaki
2003 Master of Te Reo Māori, MReo, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Ōtaki
2000 Master of Māori & Management, MMMgt, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Ōtaki.
Career
He attributes his time as a weaver and guide at the Māori Arts and Crafts Institute in Rotorua as fundamental to his practice. Leonard pays close attention to detail and process, "Everything is done by hand, from extraction to spinning to dying to weaving designs". 2004 Diploma in Māori Quantitative Methods, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Ōtaki.
Achievements
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2011 Mini Masterworks IV Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver 2010 Indigenous Weavers International Symposium Exhibition, Rave, Rotorua 2010 Manawa Wera - Defiant Chants Objectspace Auckland 2009 Contemporary Male Weavers Whakatane 2009 Taku Manu Hokahoka The Poi Room, Wellington 2007 Māori Art Market Porirua.
