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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-938/
- Published: 2024-03-27T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-27T06:34:05.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> A painting depicting the likeness of former Newshub [presenter Oriini Kaipara ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/301028997/newsreader-oriini-kaipara-shares-health-update-after-fall?ref=goodoil.news)has been removed from an online marketplace after complaints it was done without her knowledge or consent.  
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> The artist, who identified himself as Warren Thomas listed the painting featuring Kaipara’s notable moko kauae on the platform Artwork City, for $1200.  
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> Kaipara, now the Maori cultural lead for the New Zealand Olympic Committee, said she had no idea about the painting and found out through messages on[ Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C49Fp5BSXvo/?igsh=b3I3ZGQyNzJic3Y3&img%5Findex=2&ref=goodoil.news).  
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> She then took to the social media platform to voice her outrage beginning the caption with, “Here we go again”.  
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> “Dude, you’re charging $1200 for a picture you painted of me… You’ve been in Aotearoa 5 minutes and have already assumed it’s okay to take a complete stranger’s face and make money off it.  
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> “The answer is NO. Donate those proceeds to the local [kohanga reo ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/133230564/urban-whnau-concerned-about-reduced-avenues-to-mori-education-with-pending-closure-of-puna-reo?ref=goodoil.news)in your area. You can Google it. Then, I suggest you sit with the whanau of that kohanga reo to gain understanding of te ao Maori and why I’m not okay about you profiting off my whakapapa.”  
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> Stuff

[Read more here](https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350226740/oriini-kaipara-not-ok-about-you-profiting-my-whakapapa-art-work-removed-sale?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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