We Need to Talk About Gauguin?
Rosanna Raymond MNZM, Image courtesy of the artist, Photographer: Rebecca Zephyr.
Free, bookings essential.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Join Aotearoa /Pasifika artist, poet and activator, Rosanna Raymond MNZM, as she begins a conversation addressing the complex legacies of the Paul Gauguin story.
This event will explore and reveal the many layers within Gauguin’s World: Tona Iho, Tona Ao while dancing in the provocation; did Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands make Gauguin or did Gauguin make Tahiti and the Marquesas?
Focusing on the perspectives of Tangata Moana, Rosanna connects a world of experiences through the peoples who have lived under the mantle of Gauguin.
Sistar S’pacific, aka Rosanna Raymond, is an innovator of the contemporary Pasifika art scene as a long-standing member of the art collective the Pacific Sisters, and the founding member of the SaVĀge K’lub. Raymond has achieved international renown for her performances, installations, body adornment, and spoken word. A published writer and poet, her works are held by museums and private collectors throughout the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In 2018 Raymond was awarded the CNZ Pacific Senior Artist acknowledging her contribution to the arts, a former Chester Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City and this year appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of her services to Pacific Arts.
Online bookings close at 12pm on the day of the event. Ticket holders will receive a link via email to access the livestream by 2pm on the day of the event. Please contact the Gallery on +61 2 6240 6411 or information@nga.gov.au if you do not receive your viewing link.
Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao is on at the National Gallery from 29 Jun – 7 Oct 2024.
SaVĀge K’lub is on at the National Gallery from 29 Jun – 7 Oct 2024.
