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Whakangahau ā-Whānau Hamon
The makers of the Hamon whānau, art and music in the blood, from the ngahere of Aotearoa to Edmonton.
Whānau Rights
The artwork, music, and collaborations featured on this page are not mine, they are my family’s. My whānau hold the rights and ownership to everything of theirs shown or linked here. It’s gathered with aroha, to honour the line it comes from, nothing on this page transfers any right to anybody, including me.
One line, many hands
Art didn’t start with me, and it doesn’t end with me. I come from a line of makers: a great-granduncle who spent a lifetime rendering the New Zealand bush one dot at a time, his son who keeps that legacy in galleries today, and a generation of cousins painting, carving, and making music on the far side of the Pacific. My own pointillism, every dot of it, descends from this line. This page is a signpost to the whānau: follow the links and see the work where it lives. The full line is written out in my whakapapa.
Timi Rodgers
© Timi Rodgers / Nocturnal Angel, rights and ownership held by the artist.
My younger brother, and the voice of Nocturnal Angel, doom, grunge, and prog out of Vancouver. Producer and vocalist of the band: soft, soothing melodies first, then the blistering riffs land. Their second single “Fantasy” was the Canadian Track of the Day in Blog #2.
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Ike (Isaac) Hamon
© Ike Hamon, rights and ownership held by the artist.
Ike stands in the Expansion, the generation that carried the Hamon spark out into the world, through heritage work and production. The name travels because this generation carried it.
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Nate Hamon
© Nate Hamon / Mayan Fox, rights and ownership held by the artist.
The Hamon ear, turned to sound. Nate’s music rides under the Mayan Fox name, atmospheric, far-reaching stuff, the dots traded for waves. His “Mighty Wonders” has already been spotlighted in Kaitiaki’s LAWNgevity picks.
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Francis Hamon
© Francis Hamon, rights and ownership held by the artist.
He carries his grandfather’s full name, Francis Rei Paul Hamon. A painter and muralist working Māori motifs, tiki, koru, manaia, across canvas and spray paint, and a competitor on Auckland’s Art Battle circuit. Kaitiaki’s second cousin; the two only found each other in 2026, through this very site.
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Huia Hamon
© Huia Hamon, rights and ownership held by the artist.
Daughter of Awanui, granddaughter of Rei, and a musician. Huia’s track “Waka Huia” was Kaitiaki’s Kiwi Track o’ the Day in his favourite blog post: a cousin’s voice carrying home across the Pacific.
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Albert Awanui Hamon
© Albert Awanui Hamon, rights and ownership held by the artist.
Rei’s son, and the keeper of the line. A working multi-disciplinary artist, realism, surrealism, carving, murals, and the man behind the Rei Hamon Gallery and Hamon Art NZ, carrying his father’s exhibitions across Aotearoa and Australia. In te reo his name is Arapata: the ancestor’s name, worn in its English form.
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Rei Hamon
© The whānau of Rei Hamon, rights and ownership held by the family.
Francis Rei Paul Hamon (1919–2008). The root of everything on this page: the renowned Māori pointillist who spent a lifetime rendering the New Zealand bush dot by dot. Kaitiaki’s great-granduncle, and the reason the Edmonton branch of this whānau makes its art one dot at a time.
More about Rei →Every maker’s work stays their own, this page points, it doesn’t take. Read the whakapapa →