‘Le Folauga’ is a group exhibition curated by Fuli Pereira (Curator, Auckland Museum, New Zealand) and Ron Brownson (Curator, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand) for the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust – an Auckland, New Zealand-based, non-profit organisation which supports the growth and development of contemporary Pacific art in New Zealand and worldwide.
The ‘Le Folauga’ exhibition is a “snapshot” of the current state of contemporary Pacific art from New Zealand.
It was inititally exhibited at the Auckland Museum in early 2007 and is now touring to the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The ‘Le Folauga’ exhibition opens on the 13 December 2008 and ends on 5 April 2009.
Artists in ‘Le Folauga’ include:
Edith Amituanai
Fatu Feu’u
Steven Gwaliasi
Niki Hastings-McFall
Lonnie Hutchinson
John Ioane
Shigeyuki Kihara
Andy Leleisi’uao
Itiri Ngaro
Ani O’Neill
Johnny Penisula
Filipe Tohi
Michel Tuffery
Jim Vivieaere
Selected works from my ‘Fa’a fafine; In a Manner of a Woman’ series (2005) will be touring with the ‘Le Folauga’ exhibition.
