Other speakers
Jasmine Togo-Brisby (Australian South Sea), Rosanna Raymond (Samoan/ Aotearoa New Zealand) Salote Tawale(Fiji/ Australia)
At a time when galleries worldwide are focused on building their representation of works by women artists, the upcoming QAGOMA exhibition sis: Pacific Art 1980-2023will demonstrate this institutions long-term commitment to collecting and profiling the work of contemporary Pacific women. The exhibition investigates three decades of art making from a sisterhood of artists from across Oceania. Important figures, often largely unknown outside their homelands, will be highlighted, alongside that of establishedartists, to create an expanded vision of the art of Oceania since the early 1990s. Join Exhibition curator, Ruth McDougall in-conversation with artists: Jasmine Togo-Brisby (Australian South Sea), Rosanna Raymond (Samoan/ Aotearoa New Zealand) and Salote Tawale(Fiji/ Australia) as they discuss potent themes of the exhibition including bodies, representation, power, sovereignty and land. Like the exhibition, conversations will reinforce overarching concepts of cultural resilience, self-determination, rejecting convention and revisioning history.