Join Tracey Tawhiao for an artist talk on the occasion of her new exhibition Taputapu Ātea. Tracey will speak about the future of us and our world in art and artificial intelligence.
Tracey Tawhiao is a multi-disciplinary artist who has studied and worked in a variety of creative fields. She is a writer, performance poet, moving image maker, qualified lawyer and a leading contemporary Māori artist. She is a published poet and as an artist she has exhibited works in shows held nationally and internationally. Her artworks impart her experience and place as a Māori woman in a colonised society. She has been a full time Artist for over 25 years.
Taputapu Ātea is an installation of new paintings and digital works that explore the artificially intelligent future of our culture’s materialisation. Through an exploration of Indigenous Futurism, these new work symbolise how Māori philosophy can give us a new/old way of looking at the future through creativity in relationship with each other and with nature.