The Living Room

Portrait of artist Ani Oneill-Image Sherry Roberts


Portrait of artist Tracey Tawhiao-Image Sherry Roberts

Tracey Tawhiao and Ani Oneill collaborated to create and decorate the Living Room....every Museum should have one!!!!!


Image Gwil Owen


Image Gwil Owen



Image Carine Durand





Living Room with Bethany Edmunds on screen-Image Bethany Edmunds

We have a documentaries showing...Represent... specially comissioned for Pasifika Styles, Directed and Produced by Lisa Taouma and using the footage of my interviews...thanks AHRC......nice to see the voice of the artists coming through as well as a context for the exhibition, also the work of Mandrika Rupa and more works coming through make sure you take time to watch them



Mandrika Rupa

Laxmi (2000)
35mm, 12 mins

An Indian diasporic look at what it is to live in colonial New Zealand, in 1942 wartime, when ANZUS soldiers from the United States were stationed there. A coming of age story of an Indian girl who realizes why her family prefer the prejudices of a free country to the caste injustices of what they left behind.

Taamara / Sangam (The joining of two peoples) (2002)
Beta SP, 58 mins

Maori people of New Zealand give an account, in their classical language, of a time when a group of Indian men came and settled in their tribal area in the early 1900s, and how their families became woven together, up to the present generation.

Living room with Greg Semu photography
Image Carine Durand

Living room with Greg Semu on screen-Image Gwil Owen


Greg Semu

The crucifix image is an iconic image and copyright. It’s something that everybody knows. Tatau (traditional tattoo) is a Pacific icon, which belongs culturally to every Samoan. There are a few people who think that the Samoan icon should stay in Samoa. So it’s a conflict if you want to share your culture with the world.


Untitled, 2006
elaborated black & white photographic print

Untitled, 2006
elaborated black & white photographic print

Untitled, 2006
elaborated black & white photographic print