Robin White, Tamari Cabeikanacea and Ruha Fifita, Living in a material world, 2017, collection of The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, purchased 2018.
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aucklandartgallery.comHear stories of journeying, friendship and collaboration across the Pacific in this in-depth kōrero between Robin White and the artists she has collaborated with. Chaired by Nina Tonga, co-curator of Robin White: Te Whanaketanga | Something Is Happening Here, this conversation will explore artistic partnerships and the creative process of creating large-scale ngatu (barkcloth) together.
Bio
Dame Robin White is widely recognised as one the most important figures in contemporary New Zealand art. Across a remarkable 50-year career, her painting and printmaking has helped to shape a distinctive visual language for life in Aotearoa. White has exhibited widely in local and international exhibitions
including the Sydney Biennale and the Asia-Pacific Triennial. In the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours, she
was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to painting and
printmaking, and in 2009 she accepted redesignation as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of
Merit.
Dr Nina Tonga is Curator Contemporary Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Nina has been involved in a number of writing and curatorial projects in New Zealand the wider Pacific and was curator of the Honolulu Biennial 2019.
Hear stories of journeying, friendship and collaboration across the Pacific in this in-depth kōrero between Robin White and the artists she has collaborated with. Chaired by Nina Tonga, co-curator of Robin White: Te Whanaketanga | Something Is Happening Here, this conversation will explore artistic partnerships and the creative process of creating large-scale ngatu (barkcloth) together.
Bio
Dame Robin White is widely recognised as one the most important figures in contemporary New Zealand art. Across a remarkable 50-year career, her painting and printmaking has helped to shape a distinctive visual language for life in Aotearoa. White has exhibited widely in local and international exhibitions
including the Sydney Biennale and the Asia-Pacific Triennial. In the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours, she
was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to painting and
printmaking, and in 2009 she accepted redesignation as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of
Merit.
Dr Nina Tonga is Curator Contemporary Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Nina has been involved in a number of writing and curatorial projects in New Zealand the wider Pacific and was curator of the Honolulu Biennial 2019.
