Grace: A Prayer For Peace

Artist Robin White (Ngāti Awa) has spent more than five decades creating work which ranges from iconic New Zealand landscapes to collaborative tapa cloth. Grace: A Prayer for Peace, directed by Gaylene Preston, traces White’s evolution as an artist, and her creative response to the world around her. Filmed in Aotearoa, Japan and Kiribati, the documentary follows her working with collaborators and reflecting on what drives her creativity. Grace offers a meditation on living a creative life in motion — shaped by community, faith and a deep engagement with the Pacific.

I have an idea, I’m in love with that idea. I want to see what it looks like, so I have to make the work. If it’s good, it won’t go away.

– Robin White on being compelled to create her art

Key Cast & Crew

Gaylene Preston

Director, Producer, Cinematographer

Danny Bultitude

Co-Producer

Susana Lei’ataua

Co-Producer

Robin White

Subject

Lala Rolls

Editor

Paul Sutorius

Editor