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Everything is made from the lost and found, hand-me- downs, dregs of drag, precisely confused and infused with DIY tricks and a glue gun.
The work is an outlet. It is Art Therapy for Ninebob, it is a mental health necessity and a need for constant play and role play.
The process is where the ball starts and flows and finishes when mumma's bell rings for attention !!
Motukā by @vicktoriajohnson
Motukā - a transliteration of motor-car.
Vicktoria is a multi disciplinary designer of Māori Niue heritage, based in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She creates glyphs as mnemonics, these marks help her to remember her reo. She calls them; Tāmata Reo which is a collective of pictographs. Extending indigenous forms of writing and functioning as an educational tool. Tāmata Reo seeks to encourage positive attitudes towards Māori Pacific language through art and design.
Storyteller.
Three portraits by three artists convey the magic that storytelling holds within our cultures.
The continued sharing of history and folklore strengthens our connections to each other and our islands.
Words by Momoe Tasker
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This project is made in collaboration with @interislandcollective and @vfdalston and curated by the artists involved. The set decoration honours our ancestors and cultures with elements of plaiting, weaving, Tapa, dance, clothing and the iridescence of shell and feather.
Read moreJacqueline Ennis-Cole (b. 1964 Manchester, UK) is a non - binary neuro-diverse artist, photographer, poet, essayist and curator whose practice addresses trauma, social conflict, and the ecological environment.
Her photographic work and art writings respond to the physicality of objects and the atmosphere of place. Her practice maps the spaces between authority and authorship and concealment and imagination.
For October, as part of a wider exhibition on display at VFD, our Outsiders Gallery displayed portraits by Sex & Rage - an org led by Sex Workers, Sex Educators & activists resisting stigma and shame through sex education.
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