Mauri is a creator in the truest sense: audio engineer, field engineer, videographer, photographer, and music composer. Art and music aren't just what he does. They're an itch he can't scratch, a pull he's never been able to walk away from.
His credits include Kāinga Whenua on Whakaata Māori, the original soundtrack for Not Even, and full production across the Haukāinga podcast series. The process matters as much as the product, and that shows up in the work.
If you've got something you want to make, bring it. He's built for the room where ideas become real.
Nova T lights a room up just by walking into it. Sharp, witty, naturally funny. The centre of attention one moment, seamlessly blending into the background the next. People gravitate toward him.
A natural talent across music, painting, acting, and scriptwriting. Ideas flow out of him constantly and he pushes creative energy onto everyone around him, making people feel comfortable enough to create freely.
Whatever the project, he brings something to it that you can feel.
Mawhēriki is an artist working across painting, design, storytelling, and digital culture. His work blends tiki and wheku-inspired forms, graffiti energy, raw text, humour, and personal memory.
Through expressive faces and body-like figures, he builds contemporary Māori visual worlds that read playful at first, then open into deeper questions about whakapapa, whānau, trauma, faith, home, and becoming.
Mawhēriki's Anatomy is his most personal body of work to date, the first time he has cut himself open in paint.
Yes, I do speak in third person.
Three creatives from different parts of Aotearoa ended up in the same flat in Wellington. Mauri from Whangārei. Nova T from Hawke's Bay. Mawhēriki came down from Auckland for work and moved in. That flat is where The Kraft started. Between the three of them: video, audio, music, painting, design, acting, and composition. Every discipline in the house, every project built from scratch. That is still exactly how we work.
Every discipline we work in: video, audio, music, art. We came up properly trained and earned our way. There are no shortcuts in the work. The Kraft matters.
Our whakapapa, Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahungunu, isn't background context. It's in the work. We don't perform our culture for the room. It comes through naturally because it's who we are.
Three creatives. Five disciplines. When a client comes to The Kraft, they get the whole house: video, audio, music, photography, and art. All in-house, all connected, all made to the same standard.
Let's start the project.
Let's make something.