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Taumarunui-based artist Tyrone Te Waa's latest work draws on the mattress room of the wharenui at his marae, a space associated with play, sleep and hosting visitors. The resulting exhibition, Dreaming from Afar, features stretched cotton across four single mattresses, painted and incorporating sculpture, and is showing at Gus Fisher Gallery in central Auckland until May 2. Te Waa, who received an Arts Foundation Springboard Award in 2022, joins Culture 101 to talk about his creative whanau, marae life and the links between the work and his nan.