ANGELA TIATIA

Her works produce what the artist terms ‘very direct messaging’ about objects, movements, and other mechanisms of power, particularly with reference to perceptions and misconceptions of the Pacific. Such messaging is applicable as much to Tiatia’s own Sāmoan, New Zealand and Australian identity as to those of anyone in a betwixt state of culture, place, and heritage.

Tiatia’s important work has been acknowledged industry wide. She has been the recipient of multiple prestigious awards, most recently including Matisse Alive Commission Art Gallery of New South Wales (2021); Ian Potter Moving Image Commission, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia (2021); Sidney Myer Creative Fellow (2019); Creative New Zealand Contemporary Pacific Artist Award (2018) and Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2018).

Her work is held in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra; and the Australian Museum, Sydney. She was awarded the 2018 and has been a finalist in numerous prestigious awards, including the Edinburgh Short Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Archibald Prize, Sir John Sulman Prize, and the John Fries Art Award.

Text courtesy Two Rooms