Since the early 1970s, Robyn Kahukiwa has explored questions of heritage, identity, and sovereignty central to the Māori experience and relevant to Indigenous people internationally. Best known as a painter, she has also produced prints, drawings, and sculpture. Her practice ranges across diverse subjects, including colonisation and dispossession, motherhood and wellbeing, whakapapa and tikanga Māori. She exhibits regularly and has works in collections all over the world.