Suzanne Tamaki
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Suzanne Tamaki is a New Zealand fibre-based artist of Te Arawa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Tūhoe descent. She operates under the label Native Sista and was one of the founding members of the Pacific Sisters.{{cite journal|last1=Charles-Rault|first1=Jacqueline|title=More than simply traditional - Pacific Sisters|journal=Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association|date=2010|volume=10|issue=2}} Informed by indigenous concerns of New Zealand, Tamaki's jewellery, fashion and photography portrays a reclamation of colonised spaces.{{cite web|title=Visual Artists|url=http://www.maoriart.org.nz/suzanne-tamaki-p-198.html|website=Toi Māori|accessdate=6 January 2015}} As Megan Tamati-Quenell writes of her work 'They are created conceptually, provocatively and with political intent'.{{cite news|last1=Tamati-Quenell|first1=Megan|title=Suzanne Tamaki's Treaty of Why Tangi|agency=Art Monthly Australia|issue=242|date=2011}}
Collaboration
A founding member of Pacific Sisters, Suzanne continues to collaborate with artists. Her photographs that featured in the City Gallery Wellington exhibition Maiden Aotearoa saw her produce work with photographers Greg Semu and Norman Heke. Suzanne's work is a regular feature at the Toi Māori Art Market which she says is 'a unique opportunity for her to meet like-minded Māori' and states that 'many collaborations are formed between Māori'.{{cite news|title=Contemporary Māori art on display|url=http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/259397/contemporary-maori-art-on-display|accessdate=28 January 2015|agency=Radio New Zealand National|date=2014}}
Selected exhibitions
- 2014 Ebbing Tagaloa Enjoy Public Art Gallery{{cite web|title=Ebbing Tagaloa|url=http://www.enjoy.org.nz/node/3326|website=Enjoy Public Art Gallery|accessdate=6 January 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302185803/http://www.enjoy.org.nz/node/3326|archivedate=2 March 2016}}
- 2011 Maiden Aotearoa City Gallery Wellington{{cite web|title=Maiden Aotearoa|url=http://www.citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/maiden-aotearoa|website=City Gallery Wellington|accessdate=6 January 2015}}
- 2008 Manu Wāhine The British Museum{{cite web|title=Biographical Details|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=163117|website=The British Museum|accessdate=6 January 2015}}
- 2006 Native Eye City Art Gallery{{Cite web|url=https://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/suzanne-tamaki-native-eye/|title=City Gallery Wellington|website=citygallery.org.nz|language=en|access-date=2019-11-16}}
- 2005 Blanket Stitch Objectspace{{cite web|title=Blanket Sticth|url=http://www.objectspace.org.nz/Exhibitions/Detail/Blanket+Stitch|website=Objectspace|accessdate=6 January 2015}}
- 2005 Pasifika Styles University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, UK.{{cite book|last1=Raymond|first1=Rosanna|last2=Salmond|first2=Amiria|title=Pasifika Styles|date=2008|publisher=Otago University Press|location=Dunedin|isbn=978-1-877372-60-5}}
- 2004 Burning Desire Breast Plate The Dowse Art Museum
Collections
Tamaki's work is held in the collection of The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Dowse Art Museum, and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.{{cite web|title=Collections Online|url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/566849|website=Te Papa Tongarewa|accessdate=6 January 2015}}{{cite web|title=Suzanne Tamaki|url=http://www.maoriart.org.nz/suzanne-tamaki-p-198.html|website=Toi Maori Aotearoa|accessdate=12 January 2015}}
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Category:Ngāti Maniapoto people
Category:New Zealand Māori artists
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