About this Event
Arts Out East are proud to present a series highlighting artists that share connections to East Auckland area.
Each invited artist will talk to their work and their practice in their chosen local café. This free series aims to break the formal nature of artist talks and support local business. All we ask while you sit and hear from the artist, you buy a hot or cold drink to support the chosen local business. Think good vibes, great art chat and supporting local with a nice beverage.
Introducing Vasemaca a Fijian-Pākehā artist and writer currently living in South Auckland. Tavola has aligned her art practice and politics with women’s rights, feminisms, and histories of BIPOC art and activism in the Global South. She established her painting practice in Suva, Fiji at Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture and Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific, Tavola went on to study sculpture at Manukau School of Visual Arts. Since 2001, she has worked with textiles where she utilises patchwork and appliqué techniques to honour a family practice of quilt making, bonding generations together, across oceans. Throughout Tavola’s practice – in curatorial work and her art making – she has been unapologetic about confronting the ideas and economics of taste. Whether purposefully elevating low-value materials, or low-brow aesthetics and design, to symbolically situating art in places that draw into question the cultural norms and socio-political baggage of Western art and arts appreciation, Tavola prompts quiet reflection on how taste is cultivated, and who has the power to do it.
Limited spaces available. This is a free event, however, we will ask attendees to buy a hot drink at the chosen cafe.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Columbus Coffee at Mitre 10 MEGA Botany, 9 Bishop Dunn Place, Auckland, New Zealand
NZD 0.00
