Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss is a multidisciplinary artist of Māori and Niue descent, originally from Waitakere. In 2013 she completed her Masters in Visual Art and Design from AUT, also receiving an AUT Postgraduate Deans award for her research and excellence. She returned to Aotearoa in 2016 after working at the Walter Phillips Art Gallery in Banff, Canada. Cora-Allan is a full-time practitioner of Hiapo and is a founding member of BC Collective.