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LOVE to see it 🫶🏽

#MoanaOceania #PacificArt
Weaving Memory: Tongan tapa comes alive in Auckland
Ngatu artist and PhD graduate ‘Uhila Nai revives ancient ngatu and kupesi techniques, and contemporary artistry.
pmn.co.nz
March 18, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Kiddo’s orchestra had a fundraising screening of “Tinā” tonight 😭😭😭 Such a sweet film about life and death and music and maternal energy. Anapela Polata’ivao is mesmerising. Go and see this film! It’s so good and deserves all the support in the world!

#Aotearoa #MoanaOceania #PacificArt
March 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Happening in my new hood, and I can't wait!! What a warm welcome to the freezing cold South (relative to the sub-tropical north!)

Details: pataka.org.nz/whats-on/eve...

#MoanaOceania #PacificArt #LindaLepou #Pātaka #Porirua
July 27, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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"Hawaiian Girl with Dog" by John Mix Stanley (American) - Oil on canvas / 1849 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #HawaiianArt #IndigenousArt #PacificArt #BishopMuseum #DogArt #GirlAndDog #BlueskyArt #JohnMixStanley #PortraitofaGirl #AmericanArtist
Painted during American artist John Mix Stanley’s 1848–49 stay in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, this portrait gently stages an encounter between Indigenous presence and Western academic portraiture. The young woman, unrecorded by name but rendered with individualized features, carefully observed dress, and ceremonial lei, embodies Native Hawaiian dignity amid rapid cultural change. The young girl sits frontally before a pale masonry wall, her warm brown skin and dark eyes illuminated by even, gentle light. She wears a soft yellow holokū with a high yoke and long sleeves, accented by a green ribbon at her throat, a thick orange lei draped around her neck, and a vivid pinkish shawl folded over her lap. A fresh flower crown circles her neatly parted black hair. Resting securely in her arms is a small white dog whose alert face and bright eyes turn toward us, its body nestled into her lap. Sparse grasses and a shadowed plant at the left edge subtly anchor the young woman in the Hawaiian landscape while keeping the focus on her steady, composed gaze and the quiet intimacy between girl and animal. Her confident posture and direct gaze reject the exoticizing stereotypes common in Euro-American images of the Pacific. Instead, she appears as a poised young woman of status, possibly connected to elite or mission-educated circles, claiming space with her companion animal. The dog, a cherished pet rather than a specimen, underscores affection, domestic security, and a shared life rooted in this place rather than on a distant frontier. For Stanley, already known for painting Native nations in North America, Hawaiʻi offered another chance to document people he believed were at risk of being misunderstood or erased. During nearly a year in Hawaiʻi, he painted King Kamehameha III, Queen Kalama, and members of the aliʻi. "Hawaiian Girl with Dog" centers a Native Hawaiian subject with unusual tenderness, reinforcing her individuality instead of relegating her to background ethnography.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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My homie Czarina Wilson and I are so proud and excited to be finalists in the 2026 World of WearableArt Competition!!

We can’t wait to see this epic show in September!!

Team Tonga Fiji boiiii ❤️‍🔥🇫🇯🇹🇴❤️‍🔥
#PacificArt #MadeInSouthAuckland
From GP to Gaga-worn: Meet the 2026 WOW Finalists | WOW
Meet the extraordinary community of makers whose work will take the stage in the 2026 WOW Show: GLO!
www.worldofwearableart.com
July 7, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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Her name is MOTHER VAKA ⚡️⚡️

Hand-made by Czarina Wilson & Vasemaca Tavola, Runner Up for Aotearoa Category, 2026 World of WearableArt - Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand ❤️‍🔥

MOTHER VAKA is a borrowed name from artist Siliga David Setoga 🫶🏽

#PacificArt #SouthAuckland #MoanaOceania
September 18, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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The visionary, gifted and ground-breaking Indigenous queer collective, FAFSWAG have just presented an incredible suite of new work at the 2025 Manchester International Festival!

A stunning representation of #MoanaOceania, #PacificArt, #SouthAuckland and #Aotearoa 🔥

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In the Studio with FAFSWAG | Factory International
YouTube video by Factory International
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July 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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I know it's necessary and worth it but it's still a hard pill to swallow to see #Polyfest charge for entry 😓

#SouthAuckland #MoanaOceania #PacificArt
March 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I'm opening a solo exhibition at Fresh Gallery Ōtara on Saturday at 10.30am - come and help me launch this big bodied show?

// TO LIVE + DIE IN SOUTH AUCKLAND
// 4 May - 15 June 2024
// New + recent textile works

#SouthAuckland #PacificArt #TeamFiji
April 29, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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OUT NOW!
Creative Spirits
Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea
by Ross Bowden

📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/creati...

#anthropology #pacificart #barkpainting
February 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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This collage was made thinking of connections between the deep sea and outer space, and it found its person this weekend 😘🐙🦑✨

Love seeing small works grow small collections in my community 🫶🏽

#SouthAuckland #MoanaOceania #PacificArt
January 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Interesting...

#PacificArt #Ōtautahi #Aotearoa
Dalosa, Lafo & Iva | The Physics Room
The Physics Room is a contemporary art space based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
physicsroom.org.nz
March 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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#NowReading // Substack of Suva-based filmmaker Tumeli Tuqota (Cakaudrove, Fiji / Ha’apai, Tonga)

#MoanaOceania #TeamFiji #PacificArt
What making movies in a country with no local filmmaking infrastructure has taught me as a filmmaker
In 2019, on a whim, I made an animated short film, ‘You, the choice of my parents’, to submit to a Pacific animation film festival in Hawaii.
moviemanainthemoana.substack.com
August 30, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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The amazing FAFSWAG are presenting a phenomenal body of new work at #Manchester International Festival next month & they're crowdfunding to support some of their costs.

Can you help this group of fierce creatives travel to other side of the Earth to represent Aotearoa like no other?!

#PacificArt
FAFSWAG FUNDRAISER — FAFSWAG
We're asking our friends, families and networks to help us cover some extra expenses related to 8 artists traveling to Manchester. Your donations will make a huge difference to the project and help u...
www.fafswag.nz
June 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Island cultures make me think differently about distance.

The ocean can separate places, but it also connects them through sound, stories, movement and memory.

Maps make water look empty. Culture says otherwise.

#PacificArt #Fiji #Culture
August 20, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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To be in Manchester this July to witness FAFSWAG present this epic commissioned work at the Manchester International Festival, would be a dream come true!

C'mon Lotto!! I am MANIFESTING MY METAPHORICAL NUTZ OFF!!

So proud of FAFSWAG, and @tanugago.bsky.social 🥰

#SouthAuckland #PacificArt
FALE SĀ / SACRED HOUSE | FAFSWAG | Manchester International Festival 2025
Critically acclaimed Queer Indigenous collective FAFSWAG take over HOME – with stunning digital art, live cultural ceremony and a programme of films and talks grounded in Pacific identity and culture
factoryinternational.org
March 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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An order of 15 felt salusalu (Fijian garlands) requires 360 rectangular tabs, 180 small leaves, 105 seamed long leaves, 90 individually rolled ‘rosi’ flowers and 30 meters of ric-rac trim.

30 rosi down, 60 to go.

#MadeInSouthAuckland #Salusalu #TeamFiji #PacificArt #HandMade
June 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I love harvesting old books + magazines, carefully layering coded assemblages of thoughts in visual form. All on A4 card, titled, signed and $49 each.

Lapita pot silhouettes are my lingering obsession from 2023 solo show, “Backbone”: vunilagivou.com/backbone/

#SouthAuckland #Kaiviti #PacificArt
January 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Artist hustle / Matariki clear-out - Prices slashed + offers welcome!

Paintings + prints, and more in the Vunilagi Vou shop!

#PacificArt #MadeInSouthAuckland
Matariki clear-out // Prices slashed + offers welcome!
In the interest of clearing out the stockroom, offers are welcome on a small range of paintings and prints currently hanging in the Vunilagi Vou stockroom. Backbone, a 2023 study on loose 14oz canv…
vunilagivou.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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This is a beautiful collection of tracks by Auckland-based fangufangu (Tongan nose flute) player and producer, Saia Tu’itahi 🇹🇴❤️‍🔥🌊

#MoanaOceania
#PacificArt #Aotearoa
Fangufangu 'Inasi - YouTube
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May 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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COMING SOON:
Creative Spirits
Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea
by Ross Bowden

📙 Pre-order now for special discount!
www.sidestone.com/books/creati...

#anthropology #ethnography #pacificart
June 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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A Nation Drawn While It Was ChangingThe National Gallery of Australia’s Bilong Papua New Guinea looked at fifty years of independence through art rather...

#PapuaNewGuineaArt #PacificArt #ContemporaryArt #CulturalIdentity

lumlux-art.com/art-stream/a...
August 23, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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keke nguzunguzu bule
one nguzunguzu peace

#zinamaroviana #kwaio #lau #solomonislands #pacific #pacificart
A picture of a wooden nguzunguzu statue carved by artists from Solomon Islands. Behind, books about Pacific Island languages including visible Kwaio and Lau dictionaries.
January 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I've been a fangirl of Czarina Wilson's practice for years and years; this is us 15 years ago promoting her first solo show, "Plastic" at Fresh Gallery Ōtara, which was such a joy to help produce!

#SouthAuckland #PacificArt #Ōtara
Czarina Wilson, Fresh Gallery Otara and Mangere Arts Centre on Tagata Pasifika (TVNZ)
YouTube video by Ema Tavola
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August 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Unlike other crowdfunding platforms in #NZ that draw down fees & commissions from the blood, sweat and tears it takes to crowdfund from our communities, #FAFSWAG have taken the initiative to cut out the middleman ✂️ A sovereign effort worthy of acknowledgment 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

#MoanaOceania #PacificArt
FAFSWAG FUNDRAISER — FAFSWAG
We're asking our friends, families and networks to help us cover some extra expenses related to 8 artists traveling to Manchester. Your donations will make a huge difference to the project and help u...
www.fafswag.nz
June 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM