Talking Tapa: Pasifika Bark Cloth in Queensland
Works from the Melanesian nations and islands of Papua New Guinea, West Papua a province of Indonesia, The Solomon Islands and New Caledonia, and the Polynesian Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and Wallis and Futuna are represented. Community loans hang beside museum pieces. Some have be used very recently in Queensland to decorate homes, wedding receptions, meeting halls, birthday parties, for use at funerals and perhaps most commonly for Fijians to wear at their weddings.
National itinerary – tour
2009 Queensland
- USQ (Springfield, Ipswich) 12 Feb –19 March
- Art space Mackay 27 Mar – 10 May
- Gladstone Regional Art Gallery 5 June – 11 July
Museum of Brisbane 24 July – 11 Oct NOW
- Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 23 Oct – 6 Dec
- Cairns Regional Gallery 11 Dec – 31 Jan 2010
2010 Victoria
- Monash Gallery of Art 10 Feb – 11 April
- Ballarat Fine Art Gallery 17 April – 30 May
2010 NSW
- Mosman Art Gallery 5 June – 18 July
- Manning Regional Gallery 23 July – 5 Sept
- Taree
- Bathurst Regional Gallery 15 Oct – 28 Nov
Further venues may be included in 2011. If you know a venue that may be interested please let BEMAC know.
Catch TALKING TAPA where you can and enjoy this wonderful show.
