{"id":53731,"date":"2025-01-14T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T10:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/?p=53731"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:17:16","slug":"new-contemporary-art-from-the-pacific-sails-to-scott-lawrie-gallery-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/new-contemporary-art-from-the-pacific-sails-to-scott-lawrie-gallery-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"New Contemporary Art from the Pacific Sails to Scott Lawrie Gallery, Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MOANA: New Contemporaries from Oceania<\/em> at Scott Lawrie Gallery<\/strong> in Edinburgh brings together the work of eight artists who are showing in Scotland for the first time, all with a cultural heritage from the Pacific Ocean Moana<\/em> region – Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands, and New Zealand, and offer us a glimpse into rich visual cultures quite different to European artistic traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gallery was originally established in New Zealand in 2017, before relocating to Edinburgh in 2024, and this show is an appropriate testimony to the extraordinary dynamism of a region which is now justifiably receiving increased international attention, such as a recent long-running exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the artists featured are senior artist Andy Leleisi’uao (Samoa\/NZ) who brings to life the stories of his ancestral homeland through rich storytelling narratives. The beautiful Ngatu \u2018uli<\/em> (black tapa bark cloth) is the hallmark of NZ-based Tongan-born artist Kulimoe\u2019anga \u2018Stone\u2019 Maka, which contrasts with the bristling vibrancy of a painting by young newcomer Sean Hill (Samoa\/NZ). Linda Va\u2019aelua (Samoa\/Scotland) brings a touch of hand-made finesse with her hanging hessian paintings, and Dave Hill (Cook Islands) utilises found scrap wood to explore traditional mark making, while Niuen artist Marcus Hipa adds a touch of energetic lyricism with six drawings. Samoan artist Raymond Sagapolutele graces the show with a moving photographic diptych, DIASPRONAUT<\/em>, which focuses on themes of memory, displacement, and heritage. And Sefton Rani, whose work is pictured, brings his Cook Islands heritage to the fore with his magnificent \u2018painting without a frame\u2019 Raumea and Te Uanuku<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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