Te RONGOis an exhibition of paintings showing at CRAVE café 6 Morningside Road, Auckland NZ  1 July – 2 September. The show opened at 5.30 pm on 1 July 2026. Te RONGO considers the way in which human beings connect with place. It does so by looking at ‘ngā rongo’ the word our ancestors used to describe touch, smell, hearing and spiritual sensibility. The tātaritanga ‘sensory filter’ Te RONGO employs involves two local trails. The sediment trail left by the tītiko (after which the local waterway is named) and the drifting patterns left by rangatahi on the surface of a local carpark. These two tauira form the sensory background to natural environments, flora, fauna, organisms and ancestral wānanga ‘narratives’ explored in the exhibition. Te RONGO grew out of two previous Albert/Eden art sponsored shows, Tāne Motumotu and He Mauri, which looked specifically at local botanical identity. This show began as an exploration of ancestral and botanical identity around the Waitītiko River as it currently exists around the Roy Clemens walkway and it expanded to include the local streets, businesses nearby and along Morningside Road.