Name: Art of the Pacific Celebration
Start: 2025-11-22T03:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-22T06:00:00+11:00
Location: NGV International

🩵 ART OF THE PACIFIC CELEBRATION
Celebrating a new display of Pacific and Torres Strait Islander art and design from the NGV Collection, enjoy an afternoon of free talks and performances by exhibiting artists, community members and NGV curators.
The Art of the Pacific display brings together a selection of works from the NGV Collection by artists and designers from Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, and their diasporas. Featuring photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, video, fashion, tapa and lei, the display celebrates the strength and innovation of contemporary creative and cultural practice from the Pacific and Torres Strait Islands.

📍 NGV International
🗓️ Saturday 22 November
⏰ 1–4pm

🩵 PROGRAM
• 1–1.10pm
Welcome
• 1.10–1.25pm
Introduction to the Art of the Pacific Display
Dr Jessica Clark, Senior Curator, First Nations Art, NGV
Sophie Oxenbridge, Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV
• 1.25–1.35pm
Blessing/Acknowledgement of the Art of the Pacific Display
Pacific Island Creative Arts Australia (PICAA) featuring Dr. Rita Seumanutafa-Palala, Fulisia Asalemo Tofete and the Pasefika Vitoria Choir
• 1.35–1.45pm
Performance – Pasefika Vitoria Choir
• 3–3.10pm
Performance –Pasefika Vitoria Choir
• 3.10–3.30pm
Artist Talk
Dr Kirsten Garner Lyttle, Māori artist and academic (Iwi/tribe: Waikato, Waka/Canoe: Tainui, Hapū/Subtribe: Ngāti Tahinga)
Hosted by Sophie Oxenbridge, Curator, Contemporary Art, NGV
• 3.30–3.50pm
Artist Talk
Lisa Waup, mixed-cultural First Nations artist & curator
Hosted by Dr Jessica Clark, Senior Curator, First Nations Art, NGV

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