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Jo Condon and I are on the steering committee for the Macmillan Brown Pacific Artist in Residence. Please do feel free to come along and meet Linda T who started her residency last week.

Meet the 2019 Macmillan Brown Pacific Artist In Residence, Linda Tuafale Tanoa’i (aka Linda T)

School of Fine Arts Seminar room, Block 2

Thursday 9th May 12.30pm

An official welcome for the new Pacific Artist In Residence, Linda T will make a short presentation followed by refreshments. All welcome!

The Artist in residence selected this year is Linda Tuafale Tanoa’i (aka Linda T). She intends to develop a series of short stories with Pacific communities in Otautahi which will contribute to her ongoing StoryTelling as Koha Linda T TV series. A final edit of which will be exhibited in a series of multi-screen installations at the Physics Room.

Tuafale Tanoa’i aka Linda.T is an artist based in Tāmaki Makau Rau/ Auckland and is of Samoan descent.

Using video, photography and DJ-ing Linda. T’s practice aims to document and share community stories, generating a living archive. Her kaupapa has been described as one that is based on koha – often made with and gifted back to the communities she is engaged with. She has also worked with various organisations from community to government lead incentives with a special interest in Pacific women’s health and youth. A Masters in Art and Design from AUT as well as an early career in local radio, TV and short film contribute to her methodology and multi media approach. Linda. T is widely recognised for her contributions to small communities in Aotearoa, New Zealand through her rigorous and uncompromising chronology as a documenter since the early 1980’s.