Jasmine Tuiā is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Tuiā examines concepts of Pacific storytelling and indigenous Sāmoan narratives through mediums of photography, moving image, and Siapo. Tuiā is of Sāmoan descent (Matautu Lefaga, Falefa, Anoama’a and Malifa, Apia) and is a recent Master of Fine Arts graduate at the Elam School of Fine Arts. Influenced by her familial connections to Matautu Lefaga Sāmoa, Tuiā explores the re-representation and reclamation of Sāmoan identities with tapa using embroidery, earth pigments, plant-dyes and mixed-fibers too. Looking at Sāmoan techniques of storytelling, Tuiā expresses her connections to Siapo through stitched memories of places, people and objects of Matautu Lefaga’s oral-traditions. Her work reinforces the importance of collective practices, Moana voices and contemporary Sāmoan realities.