Waka workshop success

Artist and sculptor George Nuku brings Maori skills to North Edinburgh.

Since July 2008, George Nuku, Maori artist, carver and sculptor, from New Zealand's North Island, has been coming to the National Museums Collection Centre to restore part of a Maori war canoe, or wake, for the Royal Museum Project.

George took time out from his busy schedule to run a two-day series of workshops for children and adults at North Edinburgh Arts Centre, arranged by National Museums Scotland's Community Engagement department. The children create murals using traditional Maori symbols and learned the traditional Maori Haka (war dance) .

The adults carved designs in polystyrene, George's preferred material when he's not restoring canoes using Perspex.