Artist Talks

Nephi Tupaea presented by Tim Melville

Friday, May 2, 2025

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Viaduct Events Centre

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A conversation between Tim Melville and Ngāti Kahungunu artist Nephi Tupaea.

As a long-standing member of the artist collective ‘Pacific Sisters’ Tupaea is renowned for her body adornment, spoken word and costume design. It is less well known that she is also a painter whose practice entails cloaking the background structures of old master European paintings in Kōwhaiwhai to assert cultural sovereignty and tino rangatiratanga.

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This event is free to all ticket holders and does not require an RSVP.