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Sharing Simione Sevudredre via Tui Emma Gilles
Sharing this important dialogue about Veiqia. I felt it was important to share this facebook post as many questions are fired my way...
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Jul 3, 20201 min read
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The Process - Making Marks
"As is my process before I mark someone; I look at the body as a whole and as our women did before us, choose where and what to be marked...
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Oct 2, 20191 min read
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“Caution”
As part of the APT8 opening 'Live' performances at QAGOMA in Brisbane, Australia, Sunameke Productions directed by Julia Mageau Gray,...
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May 13, 20196 min read
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Talking with Ema Tavola
A conversation between Julia Mage’au Gray and Ema Tavola Papatoetoe, Auckland (January 2018) penned by Ema Tavola. - originally published...
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Jun 5, 20186 min read
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My Mother’s Skin
Our Bubu’s (Grandmother’s) wore the marks of their families, clans, villages and regions. Their marks afforded them respect, an immediate...
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Mar 9, 20182 min read
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‘Traditional Tattoo and World Culture Festival, 2017'
My time at the ‘Traditional Tattoo and World Culture Festival’ in Mallorca was an eye opener for me into the ‘tattoo world’. My world of...
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May 30, 20174 min read
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I Like It, I Want It, I'll Take It.
In 2015, The Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival had flown me (Julia) to Melbourne to tatu (tattoo) and represent our Tep Tok movement....
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Jan 29, 20175 min read
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“From Old to New Old, That's How We Go Forward...”
Travelling to and from my birthplace and the country that birthed my passion to express my cultural identity, I have, as a trained...
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Jan 27, 20172 min read
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