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key	55J6G3WK
title	The Art of Collaboration An Interview with Artists Robin White and Ruha Fifita
author	White, Robin; Fifita, Ruha
item type	Journal article
date	20250404
publication title	The Bahá'í World Publication
abstract note	Robin White was born in Te Puke, New Zealand, in 1946. White gained a diploma from Auckland University Elam School of Fine Arts in 1967. After a period as a high school art teacher, White has worked as a full-time artist since 1973. Often described as a 'regionalist' for her focus on people and place as subject matter, the 'hard-edged realist' style of her 1970s paintings and screen prints was transferred to a new medium when she left NZ in 1982 to live on the island of Tarawa in the central Pacific Republic of Kiribati. Her subject matter changed to images of atoll life, and woodblock prints prevailed. After a fire destroyed her studio in 1996, she began to work collaboratively with indigenous Pacific artists, an approach that White has continued since returning to NZ in 1999, exploring creative potential in the space between traditional and contemporary art practice. Ruha Fifita was born and raised in the Island Kingdom of Tonga and continues to engage with the Pacific region through her interdisciplinary arts practice and work as Kaitakatū Mai Tawhiti - Curator-at-large for the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, and curatorial assistant for Pacific Art at the Queensland state Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art. As an artist, Fifita's work focuses on fostering collaboration, community engagement and connection with indigenous methods and materials to achieve social change.
publisher	Bahá'í World Centre
place	Haifa
language	English
link attachments	https://bahaiworld.bahai.org/library/art-of-collaboration/
manual tags	ART; FIFITA, RUHA; WHITE, ROBIN
section	April 2, 2025

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