VCA ART 2021

Katerina Teaiwa

Te Mananga - the journey

Where have you come from?
Where are you going?

Tess Mehonoshen, as I prepare to leave (Installation View), Cootharaba clay, thread, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Tess Mehonoshen, as I prepare to leave (hanging beside an open window), Cootharaba clay, thread, pins, 2021.
Tess Mehonoshen, as I prepare to leave (hanging beside an open window) (Detail), Cootharaba clay, thread, pins, 2021.
Susan Mountford, Cabin Pressure, Aircraft seat, wood, carpet, rollers, plush toy, plastic toy, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Susan Mountford, Cabin Pressure Detail , Aircraft seat, wood, carpet, rollers, plush toy, plastic toy, 2021.
Claire Bridge, 'rupture: repattern: repair', Master of Contemporary Art Graduation Exhibition, installation view, Single channel video projection, sound, glazed stoneware ceramic, steel, wood, concrete, wax, natural pearls, copper, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.
Claire Bridge, From which all emerges and returns, glazed stoneware ceramic, 50 x 50 x 11.5 cm, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.
Katie Stackhouse, Installation view: Syncopation I, Granite Painting #1, Granite Painting #2, Granite Painting #5, Bronze, patina, cotton dyed with Ballee (Cherry Ballart) and Acrylic paint, gouache, earth pigments, oil paint and oil stick on canvas, 2021. Documentation by Emma Byrnes.
Miream Salameh, Missing Once In, Reborn Once Out, Raw clay and metal, 2021. Documentation by Damon Amb.
Miream Salameh, Missing Once In, Reborn Once Out, Raw clay and metal, 2021. Documentation by Damon Amb.
Lisa Waup, Installation view of REDIRECTED exhibition, L-R: OUR WAY (altered direction), LOST, NELOTS, DETNAW, OUR WAY (CAN DO) and TSOL, Screen-painting on Belgium linen, ink, ochre, cotton thread, reflective glass road beads. Series of 60 prints and 12 dyed, hand-rolled string, feather flowers. Custom made aluminium street signs, recycled steel poles. Screen-painting on canvas, ink, reflective glass road beads, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.
Lisa Waup, LOST (detail), drypoint prints (37.5 cm x 28.5 cm each), cotton rag paper (Somerset), ink, cotton thread, adhesive, hand-dyed rolled strings and variety of feathers, possum skin, 2021.
Lisa Waup, LOST (detail), drypoint prints (37.5 cm x 28.5 cm each), cotton rag paper (Somerset), ink, cotton thread, adhesive, hand-dyed rolled strings and variety of feathers, possum skin, 2021.
Lisa Waup, OUR WAY (altered direction), Screenpainting (3 x 3m), Belgium linen, ink, ochre, cotton thread, reflective glass road beads, 2021.
Lisa Waup, OUR WAY (can do) (detail), Screenpainting (5 x 1.5 m), canvas, ink, reflective glass road beads, 2021.
Lisa Waup, LOST, Cotton rag paper (350gsm Somerset), ink, cotton thread, adhesive, dyed hand-rolled string, assorted feathers, possum skin, reflective thread, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Katerina Teaiwa

Katerina is Banaban, I-Kiribati and African American, born and raised in Fiji. She is Associate Professor of Pacific Studies and Deputy Director - Higher Degree Research Training - in the School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands. She is also Vice-President of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies, Art Editor for The Contemporary Pacific: a Journal of Island Affairs, author of Consuming Ocean Island (2015) and a visual artist. Her research-based, multimedia installation exploring the impacts of phosphate mining, colonialism, antipodean agriculture and fertiliser, Project Banaba, is curated by Yuki Kihara. It was commissioned by Carriageworks (2017) and on show at MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahuriri (2019). A 3-screen video Mine Lands: for Teresia, was part of a group exhibition, Garden of the Six Seasons, at Para Site in Hong Kong (2020). In March 2022 Project Banaba opens at Te Uru Waitakere Gallery, Auckland, in collaboration with a Banaban community-based arts revitalisation project, Te Kaneati.

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