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Read • Painting draws on Fijian textile & pottery practices
William Bakalevu discovered his passion for painting at 37 years of age after relocating from Suva, the capital city of Fiji, to his ancestral village … -
Read • Significant events & rituals dedicated to the Goddess of Rice
Indonesian printmaker Muhlis Lugis’s large-scale woodcuts explore his cultural heritage by reflecting and recontextualising aspects of Bugis customs, philosophy and mythology. Grounded in … -
Watch • Artist story/ Dawn Ng documents the melting of a pigment-infused block of ice
The multichannel installation 'The Earth is an hourglass' 2024 documents the time-adjusted melting of a pigment-infused block of ice across five channels of … -
Watch • Artist story/ Haus Yuriyal collective
For the eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial, Haus Yuriyal present a grand display of their cultural expression and unity, encompassing a functional garden, boldly decorated architectural … -
Read • Textile installation draws on personal narratives & photographic archives
Haji Oh's textile installation Seabird Habitats 2022 installed in the eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial, is a single tableau of seven suspended woven panels that … -
Read • Finding beauty in the overlooked & meaning in the forgotten
Lê Thuý is a skilled practitioner of the traditional Vietnamese arts of silk and lacquer painting, highlighting their beauty and their cultural and religious value … -
Read • Haus Yuriyal present a grand display of cultural expression
Haus Yuriyal is a collective of Papua New Guinean men who gather to work in a circular house traditional to the Jiwaka region of PNG … -
Read • Puppetry centres on a world of animal outcasts
Zhang Xu Zhan’s wildly inventive stop-motion puppetry centres on a darkly comic world of animal outcasts. Based on correspondences between folktales across cultures … -
Read • Art restores cultural & environmental relationships
Aotearoa New Zealand's Artists for Waiapu Action — shortened to AWA — which means ‘river’ in Te Reo Māori — is a collaboration between photographer Natalie Robertson … -
Watch • Artist story/ Artists for Waiapu Action discuss their Asia Pacific Triennial project
For their installation 'He Uru Mānuka, He Uru Kānuka' 2024, AWA (Artists for Waiapu Action) revitalises customary net-making and stone fishing weir-building, enabling … -
Watch • Time-lapse/ Watch Artists for Waiapu Action install their work for the Asia Pacific Triennial
Artists for Waiapu Action — shortened to AWA, which also means ‘river’ in te reo Māori — is a collaboration between photographer and scholar Natalie Robertson and … -
Read • House of Alexander: Togather
Aniway Aquilizan reflects on their participation in the eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial. This is part two of a series that capture reflections from participants involved … -
Read • Institutions need us
Aniway Aquilizan reflects on their participation in the eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial. This is part one of a series that capture reflections from participants involved … -
Watch • Art that has a relationship to nature/ Asia Pacific Triennial
The Chittagong Hill Tracts in south-eastern Bangladesh are home to 11 different Jumma, or indigenous peoples. Their connection to their lands, as guardians of … -
Watch • Art where past & present come together/ Asia Pacific Triennial
Haji Oh's textile installation 'Seabird habitats' 2022 is a single tableau of seven suspended woven panels that map the entanglement of Korean labour in … -
Watch • Art that embodies private & public identities/ Asia Pacific Triennial
'Five Women' embodies the tension between private and public identities, capturing a moment of transition in Saudi Arabian society through the sculptural arrangement of … -
Watch • Art about loss but hope for the future/ Asia Pacific Triennial
Lê Thuý highlights the cultural significance of silk and lacquer painting in Việt Nam, while subtly commenting on contemporary issues and themes. 'Echo' 2024 evokes … -
Watch • Art that has delicate threads/ Asia Pacific Triennial
We reveal what lies beneath Hema Shironi’s beautiful textile works. Shironi’s ruminations on the sociopolitical landscape of her home nation are informed by … -
Read • Melting pigment-infused block of ice creates a hypnotic effect
Dawn Ng’s work across a wide range of contemporary media is unified by subtle gradations of colour, which function as a way of exploring … -
Watch • Artist story/ Brett Graham's five arresting sculptures are on display in the Asia Pacific Triennial
Brett Graham conceives of his Māori whakapapa as a Pasifika/Moana identity affiliated with a global network of indigenous and non-Western peoples. From this …