The spirited work of three Pacific female artists is to be exhibited for a month at Auckland’s Okaioceanikart Gallery and then at the Calder and Lawson Gallery in Hamilton. The Flora Koloa Kapkap exhibition will feature Dagmar Dyck (Tonga) Ellie Fa’amauri (Solomon Islands) and Sylvia Marsters (Cook Islands). The Auckland exhibition will be opened on Wednesday 25 August 2010by Professor Jonathon Mane–Wheoki from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. It will run at Okaioceanikart’s Reef Gallery (69 Beach Rd) until 24 Sept 2010 and includes an artists’ floor talk at 12 noon on Saturday 5 September. The exhibition then moves to Hamilton where it will be opened on Wednesday 29 September by Dr Ngahuia Te Awekotuku from the University of Waikato. The Hamilton exhibition runs until 16 October 2010. The artists will be in Hamilton to speak about their work at 7pm on Saturday 9 October at the University of Waikato’s Calder and Lawson Gallery. For more information call Ph +64 (9) 379 9051 or 027 285 4350 and visit the Okaioceanikart website. (Image of Ellie Fa’amauri’s Intertwine, 2010, acrylic on canvas; adapted from the Flora Koloa Kapkap poster.)
