MUSE : Angela Tiatia
Meet with beauty and resistance.
Presented by Newcastle Art Gallery, Muse is first major survey of globally recognised and Newcastle-based artist Angela Tiatia. Drawing together twenty years of video, photography and installation, this exhibition invites audiences to be immersed in the largest ever presentation of Angela Tiatia’s visually luscious and politically incisive art practice. This timely exhibition celebrates the artist’s poetic considerations of climate, capitalism, and colonisation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Angela Tiatia is a Sāmoan/Australian artist based in Newcastle. For the past 20 years, she has explored global power structures and their impact on Pasifika communities. Tiatia explores contemporary culture through performance, moving image, painting, sculpture and photography, drawing out the relationships between representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of body and place. Often through the lenses of history, popular and material culture, the artist moves deftly in her compositions of still and moving image from pointed detail to satellite view addressing themes within power structures and how these impact the individual and their communities.
ACCESSIBILITY
To view the Newcastle Art Gallery Visual Story click here. Newcastle Art Gallery is fully accessible, including lift access to all areas of the gallery, bench seating throughout and accessible toilets available on the ground floor and first floor.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Angela Tiatia: Muse is presented by Newcastle Art Gallery for New Annual. Project supporters include the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Image: Angela Tiatia, The dark current (Blue screen 4) (detail), 2023, from the series The Dark Current. Image courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney © the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Angela Tiatia is a Sāmoan/Australian artist based in Newcastle. For the past 20 years, she has explored global power structures and their impact on Pasifika communities. Tiatia explores contemporary culture through performance, moving image, painting, sculpture and photography, drawing out the relationships between representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of body and place. Often through the lenses of history, popular and material culture, the artist moves deftly in her compositions of still and moving image from pointed detail to satellite view addressing themes within power structures and how these impact the individual and their communities.
ACCESSIBILITY
To view the Newcastle Art Gallery Visual Story click here. Newcastle Art Gallery is fully accessible, including lift access to all areas of the gallery, bench seating throughout and accessible toilets available on the ground floor and first floor.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Angela Tiatia: Muse is presented by Newcastle Art Gallery for New Annual. Project supporters include the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Image: Angela Tiatia, The dark current (Blue screen 4) (detail), 2023, from the series The Dark Current. Image courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney © the artist.
