Selected works for sale Artist's CV
Education
2002-2004 Bachelor of Visual Art, The University of Auckland
1998-2001 Certificate of Art and Design, Whitecliffe College of Art & Design, Auckland
1988-1991 Liahona High School, Tonga
Awards
2011 Creative New Zealand Emerging Pacific Artist Award
2009 Artist in Residence, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, Canterbury University
2008 Margaret Stoddart Award
2007 Martin Hughes Art Award: Finalist
2003 To’utupu Tonga Trust Annual Art Excellence Award
1997 South Pacific Environment Arts Award: Designed Tongan poster on preserving Tonga’s coral reef
1996 Designed the Tongan Trade Logo
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Kumi e Manatu – Finding Black Tapa Memories, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2021 Toga mo Bolata’ane” Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christchurch
2010 Tohinoa ‘o ‘eku Manatu – Journal of my Memories, CoCA, Christchurch
2009 Faka’ahu – Contemporary Fumage, McCarthy Gallery, Auckland; Central Library, University of Canterbury; CoCA, Christchurch
2008 Ngatu tu ‘uli / The Past is Now, CoCA , Christchurch
2007 Papata pe ka na’e Lalanga (It may be coarse in texture, but it was woven), Our City O-Tautahi, Vitu Pacific Festival, Christchurch
2004 Talamahu Market, Nuku’alofa, Tonga
2003 Uxbridge Art Gallery, Howick, Auckland
2002 Te Taumata Art Gallery, Grafton, Auckland
2002 Art by the Sea Gallery, Devonport, Auckland
2001 Carlton Hotel Ballroom, Newton, Auckland
1998-2003 Auckland Pasifika Festival, Western Springs, Auckland
1997 Art of this World Gallery, Devonport, Auckland
1997 Manukau City Council Art Gallery, Manukau, Auckland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 - 2022 Te Wheke, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christchurch
2020 Sustaining the Local, The Central Art Gallery, Christchurch
2020 Biennale of Sydney 2020 – NIRIN, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2019 Va Oceans Between, Turanga Library, Christchurch
2017 Kaitani, Physics Room, Christchurch
2017 First Thursdays CHCH, The Colombo and Dilana Rugs, Christchurch
2016 Tonga ‘i Onopooni, Tonga Contemporary, City Gallery, Invercargill
2015 Tonga ‘i Onopooni, Tonga Contemporary, Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton; Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru; Forrester Gallery, Oamaru
2014 Tonga ‘i Onopooni, Tonga Contemporary, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua
2010 Visions of Utopia, CoCA (Centre of Contemporary Art), Christchurch
2008 Bite Me, Our City O-Tautahi, Christchurch
2008 Preview Exhibition, CoCA, Christchurch; Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2008 10th Festival of the Pacific Arts, Pago Pago Museum, American Samoa; Williams Gallery, Petone, Wellington;
O’kaioceanikart Gallery, Auckland
2008 Margaret Stoddart Award Exhibition, CoCA, Christchurch
2007 2 x 8, CoCA Gallery, Christchurch
2007 Martin Hughes Contemporary Pacific Art Exhibition, Auckland
2007 Maka Tu’u Taha, Fresh Gallery, Otara, Auckland
2007 Vitu Pacific Festival, Our City O-Tautahi, Christchurch; O’kaioceanikart Gallery, Auckland; Williams Gallery, Petone, Wellington;
Portsifika Gallery, Port Chalmers, Dunedin
2006 Pacific artists’ exhibition, Williams Gallery, Petone, Wellington; Portsifika Gallery, Port Chalmers, Dunedin
2005 O le Ala i le Pule o le Tautua, Pacific Gallery, Ono Pacific Festival, New Brighton, Christchurch
2005 Jubilee Celebration Art Exhibition, Brigham Young University - Hawaii (BYU), Laie, Hawaii
2003 Auckland Easter Show Exhibition, Greenlane, Auckland
2003 Pasifikaha students, Art Net Gallery, Otara, Auckland
2003 Guest artist in Manukau Vessel and Sculpture Exhibition, Nathan Homestead Art Centre, Manurewa, Auckland
2003 Pasifikaha students, Te Tuhi, The Mark, Pakuranga, Auckland
2003 Niu Mui, Tongan emerging artists, Lakeside Convention Centre, Mangere, Auckland
2002 Pasifikaha students, Lopdell House Art Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland
2002 Tautai Trust Artists, Aotea Centre Gallery, Central Auckland
2001 Aotea Centre Gallery, featuring Richard Cooper, Auckland
2001 Summer Hanging, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Central Auckland
2000 Summer Hanging, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Central Auckland
2000 Tautai Trust Contemporary Artists, Artstation Gallery, Ponsonby, Auckland
2000 Emerging artists, Aotea Centre Gallery, Central Auckland
2000 Morgan Street Gallery, featuring Fatu Feu’u, Ian George, Henry Wilson, Sylvia Masters, Newmarket, Auckland
1999 Tautai Trust Contemporary Artists, Morgan Street Art Gallery, Newmarket, Auckland
1999 Pacific artists, Pacific Contemporary Art Gallery, Otahuhu, Auckland
1999 Emerging Artists, Artstation Gallery, Ponsonby, Central Auckland
Collections
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Chartwell Trust Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christchurch, New Zealand
Te Papa Collection, Wellington, New Zealand
Wrightman Collection, Christchurch, New Zealand
Commissions
2016 Painting for Pacific Trust, Christchurch
2015 Painting for Chris Herbert, Christchurch
2015 Painting for Tom and Jonelle Matthews, Christchurch
2013 Painting for NZ High Commission, Tonga
2013 ‘Emotional Tension and Compression’ Sculpture for Christchurch City Council, Christchurch
2006 Painting for The Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs, Christchurch
2006 Paintings for John Peters, Christchurch
2005 Painting for Michelle and Grant Russell, Christchurch.
2005 Paintings for D2 Digital Studio, Albany, Auckland
2004 Stone Sculpture for Methodist church, Maui, Hawai‘i, USA
2004 Mural for Otara Music and Art Centre, Otara, Auckland
1998 Frame for Auckland City Council, Bledisloe House, Auckland
1999 Painting for Jack Cooper, Cooper Watkinson Textiles, Auckland
1996 Mural for Free Church of Tonga, Ha’apai, Tonga
1996 Mural for Talamahu Market, Nuku’alofa, Tonga
1995 Mural for Queen Salote Hall for the Miss South Pacific Pageant, Tonga
1991 Mural for Talamahu Market, Nuku’alofa, Tonga
1990 Mural for Kahana Lagoon Resort, Nuku’alofa, Tonga
Published Interviews
2021 Gates, Charlie. ‘Tongan art, Flying Nun open Gallery” The Press, September 13, 2021
2021 Feeney, Warren. “10 exhibitions to look out for in level 2 in September” Stuff September 11, 2021
2021 Thompson, Tulia. “The Meeting of Two Queens: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Bulletin 205
2021 Feeney, Warren. “Stone Kulimoe’anga Maka – Memories of an Eight Year Old Boy at the Biennale of Sydney” ARTBEAT Issue 32, August 2021
2020 Anderson, Vicki. “The artist who uses smoke and spiderwebs” The Press: Mainlander, March 21, 2020, C4
2020 Feeney, Warren. “Stone Kulimoe’anga Maka: Toga mo Bolataane – Tonga and Britain at the Sydney Biennale”, ARTBEAT Issue 15, March 2020
2019 Feeney, Warren, “Va Oceans Between at Southbase Gallery” World Sculpture News Volume 25, No. 2 Spring 2019: 59-60.
2013 Vercoe, Caroline and Tonga, Nina, “Take these with you when you leave – Contemporary Pacific Artists who reference Tapa” Made in Oceania (2013): 66-81.
2010 Interview, “Heart of stone” The Press: GO ARTS July 23, 2010
2010 Wood, Andrew. “Review of Tohinoa ‘o Manatu, Journal of my memories” The Press GO ARTS May 21, 2010
2009 Harrington-Watt, Kathleen. “Kulimoeanga Stone Maka, Ngatu ‘uli and Abstraction” Oculus: Postgraduate Journal for Visual Arts Research 1 (2009): 70-73
2009 Higgins, Katherine. "Smoking Memories." Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust December 2009: 1-2.
2009 Koloamatangi, Malakai. Fakahalafononga ki he Temokalati: Ngaahi Lea mo e Fakakaukau Fakapolitikale ma’ae Lolotonga pea mo e Kaha’u (2009): Book cover.
2009 Interview, “Traditional use of smoke inspires artist”. University of Canterbury Chronicle Volume 44, No. 8: 9.