Kulimoe'anga Stone Maka (b. 1970, Pātangata, Tonga) is a Tongan interdisciplinary artist based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. His practice draws on the visual language and cultural knowledge of ngatu tā 'uli-blackened tapa cloth-reframing its graphic traditions within contemporary abstraction. Working with materials such as clay, smoke, natural pigments, and occasionally spider webs, Maka develops richly textured surfaces that connect ancestral mark-making with experimental material processes.
Rather than treating abstraction as neutral form, Maka activates it as a space through which Tongan histories, cosmologies, and social structures can be expressed. His compositions translate the symbolic systems embedded within tapa design into contemporary visual fields that move between ritual reference and gestural abstraction.
Maka has exhibited widely across Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally, including participation in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney in 2020. His work is held in major public collections including the Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa.