Announcing our latest PAA Journal

PAA Vol 22, no 2 (December 2022) special issue ‘Grounded in Place: Dialogues between First Nation Artists from Australia, Taiwan, and Aotearoa’
We are pleased to announce that Pacific Arts, vol. 22, no. 2 (December 2022) has been released as an open access, peer reviewed, online journal published through the University of California’s eScholarship platform. This special issue focuses on the theme “Grounded in Place: Dialogues between First Nation Artists from Australia, Taiwan, and Aotearoa“, guest edited by Sophie McIntyre, Fang Chun-wei, and Zara Stanhope.

The collection of essays and creative work featured were presented at a three-day symposium held in October 2021 that explored several themes: History and Sovereignty, Land and Community, Site and Materials, and Place and Space.

Contributors include: Patrick Flores, Vernon Ah Kee, Chang En-Man, Kaihaukai Art Collective, Judy Watson, Akac Orat, Areta Wilkinson on behalf of Ngāi Tahu Contemporary Visual Arts, Mandy Quadrio, Yuma Taru, Leah King-Smith, Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos), Ngāhuia Harrison, and Megan Tamati-Quennell.

You can view or download the issue here.
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Image credit:
Judy Watson, a picnic with the natives–the gulf(detail), 2015. Pigment and acrylic on canvas, 204 x 180 cm.
Collection Art Gallery of New South Wales. Photograph by Carl Warner. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane