MA Orientation trip to a gallery with 'Pasifika Styles'

19/09/2006

MA Orientation trip to a gallery with 'Pasifika Styles'

Rosanna Raymond’s indigenous heritage is in the Pacific (specifically Samoa and Aotearoa) and she now lives in London. As an artist and curator, she was involved with the ‘Pacific Pathways’ project at the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford, and is currently Curator/Creative Director in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

The Pasifika Styles http://www.pasifikastyles.org.uk/ is a major exhibition and festival (May 2006 - February 2008) celebrating contempoary art work inspired by Maori and Pacific Island cultures. Events include an exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge - last year's MA students were guided around the exhibition by Rosanna.

On Tuesday 5th September, as part of their Orientation program with Dr Robert J. Wallis, the new cohort of MA students had the opportunity to meet Rosanna and fellow artists in residence Bethany Edmunds and George Nuku at the Pasifika Style @ Carnaby exhibition, where these three cutting-edge Pacific artists displayed some of their work, demonstrated the crafting process and fielded questions on intercultural issues pertinent to the MA program.

This event will be followed by the MA students visiting important contemporary art galleries in the East End of London this weekend with Dr Deborah Schultz.

Link to this page: http://www.richmond.ac.uk/n/119.aspx