Jasmine Tuia

Aunty Shirley, Falefā

2020

Tapa, embroidery thread, eco dyed with marigold flowers and onion peels

345mm (H) x 400mm (W)

Unframed

Note, artwork sold unframed. The framing shown in the interior shot is for visual inspiration. 

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Artist Statement

This series of works explores the re-representation and reclamation of Sāmoan identities with tapa using embroidery, earth pigments, plant-dyes and mixed-fibers. Looking at Sāmoan techniques of storytelling, a personal connection to Siapo is explored through stitched memories of places, people and objects of Matautu Lefaga’s oral-traditions.

About the Artist

Jasmine Tuia

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.
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