Si’oto’ofa! Tautai is proud to announce it’s first exhibition of 2021. Voyagers: The Niu World. Created by Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows and Tui Emma Gillies.
TUI EMMA GILLIES – Change of alert levels affects exhibition at Tautai Gallery
The timing is certainly not great – and definitely a little ironic – for Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust’s next exhibition, Voyagers: The Niu World by New Zealand-based, Tongan mother-daughter combo Tui Emma Gillies and Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows.
Voyagers: The Niu World showcases a collection of tapa artworks by award-winning Tongan artists Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows and her daughter Tui Emma Gillies. Their collection was created during and after lockdown and reflects on the idea of navigating a changed world in the midst of a pandemic.
Sulieti and Tui chat to Lynn Freeman about the Coronavirus era and the way in which the word “bubble” has come to mean safety and sanctuary. But can bubbles also be cages, forcing families apart?
Mother-daughter team to open Pacific art gallery with lockdown journey on tapa art
Voyagers x 531PI
TUI EMMA GILLIES – Change of alert levels affects exhibition at Tautai Gallery
Eteuati Eteuati talks with Tui Emma Gillies about how the latest Covid19 alert level changes has affected her and her mothers exhibition which was to open in Auckland’s Tautai gallery tomorrow night, Friday 19 February 2021
Listen to the full interview here
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Voyagers x The Big Idea
What Latest COVID Level Changes Mean to the Arts
In light of Auckland’s level 3 lockdown from February 14 2021, a number of art shows and festivals are coming to a grinding halt once again.
The timing is certainly not great – and definitely a little ironic – for Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust’s next exhibition, Voyagers: The Niu World by New Zealand-based, Tongan mother-daughter combo Tui Emma Gillies and Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows.
The Big Idea
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Voyagers x PMN News
Tongan artists’ exhibition navigates the ‘Niu’ world on tapa
Voyagers: The Niu World showcases a collection of tapa artworks by award-winning Tongan artists Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows and her daughter Tui Emma Gillies.
Their collection was created during and after lockdown and reflects on the idea of navigating a changed world in the midst of a pandemic.
“We’re all voyaging at the moment through rough waters because we don’t know what our destination is going to be at the end of it,”
Tui Emma Gillies
Read the full article here
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Voyagers x RNZ
Tongan tapa-making in a lockdown bubble
Sulieti and Tui chat to Lynn Freeman about the Coronavirus era and the way in which the word “bubble” has come to mean safety and sanctuary. But can bubbles also be cages, forcing families apart?
This is one of the ideas explored by mother and daughter, New Zealand-based Tongan ngatu or tapa artists.
Listen to the full interview here
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Voyagers x Stuff
Mother-daughter team to open Pacific art gallery with lockdown journey on tapa art
Sulieti and Tui sit down with Stuff’s Auckland Pasifika Affairs Reporter Torika Tokalau to share some insight into their upcoming exhibiton, Voyagers – The Niu World opening at Tautai Gallery soon!
“So to have it away from that traditional setting but still including it, and having it in a contemporary space – this is from the islands, from our ancestors – it’s saying that we belong up there too.“
Tui Emma Gillies
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EXHIBITION – Voyagers: The Niu World
Si’oto’ofa! Tautai is proud to announce it’s first exhibition of 2021.
<< Voyagers: The Niu World >>
Created by Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows
and Tui Emma Gillies
With Auckland moving to Level 1 today, we are thrilled to announce the new opening date for
VOYAGERS – The Niu World
Combining pieces created during Aotearoa’s lockdown and new work, this exhibition aims to tap into the spirit of the great explorers of the Pacific, consulting the stars and charting a course into the wild blue expanse.
– Tui Emma Gillies & Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows
“The waves have never been bigger or more threatening, the storms have never been so savage, the fires have never been so close and hot. And we are expressing this in the medium we were brought up in, tapa painting, which has been passed down from generation to generation by those people who made the original voyages and their ancestors before them. This exhibition is dedicated to all us Voyagers navigating The Niu World.”
We are honoured to be working with these talented women and we look forward to sharing their work with you all.
Voyagers: The Niu World
March 5 – April 24, 2021
Tautai Gallery, Level 1 – 300 Karangahape Road, Auckland Central
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