Join us on Saturday 15 February at 2pm for a casual kōrero with artists Manu Vaea and Catherine Griffiths, as they discuss their projects Low Tide and Iterations/Alterations.

This event is free to attend. No registration necessary. 
Light refreshments will be provided. 

Manuha’apai Vaeatangitau (Manu Vaea) (Lapaha, ‘Utulau, Tongatapu), an interdisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, explores themes of eroticism and critical fabulation, reasserting queer Pacific identities in social and cultural contexts. A 2019 Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Award winner in Arts and Creativity, her work has been exhibited in Auckland and Wellington. Key projects include her 2021 solo exhibition Tupu’anga o Leitī at Moana Fresh Kū Kahiko Gallery, the 2022 installation Kindred: A Leitī Chronicle with Sione Monū at Auckland Art Gallery, and her 2023 Aniva Arts Residency exhibition Koe Tau’atāina o e Leitī at Pātaka Art + Museum. In 2024, she contributed to Auckland Art Gallery’s Aotearoa Contemporary triennial.


Catherine Griffiths, Pākehā, is an artist, typographer, designer, educator, curator, writer, publisher, activist, feminist, who lives in Aotearoa and, intermittently, France.