Emiko Sheehan (Waikato, Tūwharetoa, Raukawa, Ngāti Tahu–Ngāti Whaoa), is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked with video, drawing, muka and poetry. Her work explores ways to reconnect with whakapapa and whenua. She is one of 10 creative enablers selected for Creative Waikato’s first artist-in-residency programme Whiria te Tāngata.