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Indepth Arts News: "Niki Hastings-McFall: Polynisation" 2005-06-21 until 2005-07-17 Bartley Nees Gallery Wellington, , NZ New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Artist Niki Hastings-McFall has been increasingly driven by research into her Pacific Island heritage since meeting with her Samoan father for the first time in 1992. Trained as a jeweller, Hastings-McFall has been working recently on larger installation pieces and what she terms 'mixed media assemblages', that nonetheless retain the delicacy and exquisite detailing of her jewellery.
Her work explores what it means to be a New Zealander of Pacific Island descent living in the urban environment of the 21st century. Manipulating the very materials of that urban environment and juxtaposing commodity with traditional Pacific form Hastings-McFall offers us a melting pot of cultural messages and symbols.
Using material as diverse as plastic sushi fish, reflective roadsign vinyl, artificial lei and lightboxes Hastings-McFall explores ideas of the urban pacific, christianity and colonialism.
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