Weaving Memory: Tongan tapa comes alive in Auckland Ngatu artist and PhD graduate ‘Uhila Nai revives ancient ngatu and kupesi techniques, and contemporary artistry.

LOVE to see it 🫶🏽

#MoanaOceania #PacificArt

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

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#PacificArt #ArtSky

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.

"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

3/7 🎨Premier Polynésien à peindre à l'aquarelle ! Tupaia apprit la technique de Sydney Parkinson. Ses œuvres dépeignent les premiers contacts entre Européens/Polynésiens/Aborigènes. Art visionnaire conservé à la British Library 🖼️ #TupaiaArtiste #PacificArt

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

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 🔥

@tanugago.bsky.social

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...

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...

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

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…

Artist hustle / Matariki clear-out - Prices slashed + offers welcome!

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

#PacificArt #MadeInSouthAuckland

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

#DailySketch #OceaniaArt #MetMuseum #ArtOfOceania #PacificArt #TribalArt #EthnographicArt #Sketchbook #ArtStudy #CulturalArt #MuseumSketch #AnthropologyArt #VisualAnthropology #TraditionalArt #InspirationFromTheMet

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

keke nguzunguzu seke

one of my favorite nguzunguzu, made of queen ebony bought in Solomon Islands from the carver

#zinamaroviana #pacificart #solomonislands

Dalosa, Lafo & Iva | The Physics Room The Physics Room is a contemporary art space based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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#PacificArt #Ōtautahi #Aotearoa

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

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

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

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

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.

keke nguzunguzu bule
one nguzunguzu peace

#zinamaroviana #kwaio #lau #solomonislands #pacific #pacificart

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

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

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