Tongan Art

Dagmar Dyck

Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck (born 1972) is a New Zealand artist of Tongan and German descent. Dyck's prints and paintings are often inspired by her cultural heritage and explore textile practices of Tonga. Dyck completed a Bachelor for Fine Arts through Elam School of Fine Arts in 1994 and a Post-Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts in 1995. She was the first women of Tongan descent to do so. In 2014 Dyck received the Contemporary Artist Award at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards.

Selected exhibitions

• 2014 Tonga 'i Onopooni: Tonga Contemporary, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua Wellington 
• 2013. Pacific Voices II, Orexart Auckland.
• 2013. To Be Pacific, Tairawhiti Museum + Art Gallery Gisborne.
• 2013 Pacifica: Patterns of Exchange. Flagstaff Gallery Auckland with Sheyne Tuffery
• 2013 Made in Oceania, Tapa Art + Landscapes, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne
• 2013 Between the Lines, Solander Gallery Wellington,
• 2012. Made in New Zealand: An exhibition of Fine Art from New Zealand. Agora Gallery, New York, USA.

Dagmar Dyck
kahoa
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 760 x 560
From an edition of 40
1997

 Dagmar Dyck
kafa
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 410 x 605
From an edition of 30
1997

Dagmar Dyck
maea
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 410 x 605
From an edition of 30
1997

Dagmar Dyck
Brown flight
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 310 x 280
From an edition of 10
2013  

Dagmar Dyck
Fibre threads II
mixed media (framed)
Dimensions (mm) 290 x 260
From an edition of 1
2013

Dagmar Dyck
Blurred lines III
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 350 x 270
From an edition of 15
2013

 Dagmar Dyck
Blurred lines II
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 350 x 270
From an edition of 15
2013

Dagmar Dyck
Blurred lines I
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 350 x 270
From an edition of 15
2013

 Dagmar Dyck
Classic
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 255 x 530
From an edition of 10
2013

  Dagmar Dyck
Woven strips II
mixed media (framed)
Dimensions (mm) 300 x 560
From an edition of 1
2013

 Dagmar Dyck
Woven strips I
mixed media (framed)
Dimensions (mm) 300 x 560
From an edition of 1
2013

Dagmar Dyck
Home grown
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 305 x 270
From an edition of 10
2013

Dagmar Dyck
Superfine
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 530 x 530
From an edition of 10
2013

Dagmar Dyck
Free life
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 610 x 270
From an edition of 10
2013

 Dagmar Dyck
Black velvet
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 270 x 610
From an edition of 10
2013

Dagmar Dyck
Navigate
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 560 x 380
From an edition of 10
2013

Dagmar Dyck
Navigate
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 560 x 380
From an edition of 10
2013

Dagmar Dyck
Survive
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 560 x 380
From an edition of 10
2013  

Dagmar Dyck
Actual
woodcut
Dimensions (mm) 580 x 440
From an edition of 10
2015

Dagmar Dyck
Implied
woodcut
Dimensions (mm) 580 x 440
From an edition of 10
2015  

Dagmar Dyck
Fala
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 810 x 600
From an edition of 40

 Dagmar Dyck
Kupesi Styles I
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 610 x 800
From an edition of 45

 Dagmar Dyck
Kupesi Styles II
screenprint
Dimensions (mm) 610 x 800
From an edition of 45

Dagmar Dyck
Placement
screenprint
Dimensions (mm)
From an edition of 45 

Dagmar Dyck
Acceptance
screenprint
Dimensions (mm)
From an edition of 45

  

 

Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi

Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi (born 23 Aug 1959 in Tonga) is a Tongan artist who has lived in New Zealand since 1978. He has exhibited in major exhibitions in New Zealand and abroad. Several major collections include his work. The 2010 Art and Asia Pacific Almanac describes him as "Tongan art's foremost ambassador".

Exhibitions

• Te Moemoea no Iotefa, an exhibition of contemporary Pacific art at the Sarjeant Art Gallery in Wanganui in 1990
• Bottled Ocean an exhibition of work by New Zealand artists of Pacific Island descent shown at a number of metropolitan art galleries in New Zealand in 1994-1995.
• Genealogy of lines: Hohoko ē tohitohi at the Govett-Brewster in 2002.

• Tohi was an invited artist for Partage d’exotismes (sharing exoticisms) at the Biennale of Lyon, France, 2000.
• Date Line: zeitgenössische Kunst des Pazifik = contemporary art from the Pacific, Berlin, 2007.

• Fatuemaka mei falekafa: Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi.Survey part one at Mangere Arts Centre, 2011.
• Home AKL: Exhibition held at Auckland Art Gallery, 7 July to 22 October 2012.
• Tonga ʻi onopooni = Tonga contemporary, an exhibition of contemporary Tongan art curated by Nina Kinahoi Tonga, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, New Zealand,2014.

 Macaw flying through the air

 Manulele detail

 Matakimoana, 2007, aluminium, 15000x4000x1500mm

 Affinities

 Tupu'anga

 Haukulasi detail

 Manulele detail

 Haupapa (female), 1998

Kupenga

Viliami Tolutaʻu

Asipeli Havea "Viliami" Tolutaʻu (born 1951) is a sculptor and a professor of sculpture at Brigham Young University–Hawaii (BYU–Hawaii).
Tolutaʻu attended high school at Liahona High School in Tonga and went to study at BYU–Hawaii. He then went on to earn an M.F.A. from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, in 1983. He has been on BYU–Hawaii's art faculty since 1991.
Among works by Tolutaʻu is the statue of George Q. Cannon and Jonathan Napela at BYU–Hawaii that was unveiled as part of the 1997 Mormon pioneer sesquecentennial celebration. He also did a statue depicting Finau Ulukalala Feletoa II's 1807 encounter with writing for Liahona High School. He also did the sculpture Mamalahoe that is at the Windward Oahu Courthouse. He has also done sculptures for several elementary schools in Hawaii.
Among those who have studied sculpture under Tolutaʻu are Steven K. Sperry and Jacob Dobson.
Tolutaʻu also did the sketch art for Tuku Fonua - The Land Given to God, a BYU–Hawaii produced film that was done on commission from the government of Tonga.
In 2007, Tolutaʻu co-chaired along with Tavita Kaʻili the centennial celebration of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Tonga. This was sponsored by the Uho o Tonga Historical Society, the Mormon Pacific Historical Society and the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation.
Tolutaʻu is a Latter-day Saint. He has been a bishop in the LDS Church.

bronze by ceremony dedication for hoʻokoʻana mauiakalana o sculpture sculture tolutaʻu viliami

 Kaneohe District Court - Inspired by Kānāwai Māmalahoe (the law of the splintered paddle), Viliami

 Portraits of "Amatabaulay". Photographs taken, probably by Corporal C Newbold, between 19 and 22 July 1874. The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) was funded by the British Government for scientific purposes and seems to have been the first expedition to carry an official photographer as well as an official artist.

This photograph is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum's collection of nitrate negatives taken by Harold Nossiter and his son Harold Nossiter Junior in the 1920s and 1930s.

Identifier: historyofmankind01ratz (find matches) Title: The history of mankind Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910 Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co. Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: a. (From a photograph in the Godeffroy Album.) but often also from vanity—the woman not caring to have children until the thirdyear of her marriage. In some parts of the Solomons and the New Hebridesall children even are killed at birth, and substitutes purchased. If the child is a girl,it has generally more prospect of being kept alive where inheritance goes in thefemale line, and where it will carry on the family succession. The birth of twins THE FAMILY AND THE STATE IN OCEANIA 269 is not regarded as actually injurious, though there is a disposition to look uponthem as uncanny. If the children are once allowed to live, everything is done forthem with due care. Not only the parents but the relations make them presents.Little children who are living after their parents death are -adopted by others ;if they are older, natural ties, as well as the laws of inheritance, are honestlyobserved in the traditional way. The most important epochs in life have their own religious consecration. Text Appearing After Image: Tongan ladies. (From the Godeffroy Album.) God is closer to man than is always the case with us Christians. In Saa, and onthe Lepers Island, toy bows are offered, a week or ten days after birth, on behalfof the boy, that he may be strong ; mat-fibres for the girl, that she may beindustrious. The participation in this of relations on the fathers side is asignificant infraction of mother-right, which in other respects is jealously guarded.In Hawaii, the child at weaning is brought from the mother-house, Noa, to thefather-house, Jlua, and thereby falls under the taboo to be presently mentioned. 27o THE HISTORY OF MANKIND Thereupon the mother sacrifices a pig to her family god, while the father offersava and implores health for the new scion. At the entrance upon manhood theirconsecration is repeated in more severe forms, and attended by customs of ahardening nature. A general fast is held in the family. The grandfather,between whose soul and that of the next generation but one a closer a Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

Haamonga A Maui, Tongatapu, Tonga, picture taken by uploader on visit 1990

Hobe / Holger Behr - Own work

Tongan Stool
 LACMA recently created the Pacific Islands division, and is collecting art from throughout Polynesia and Melanesia. Artwork is arranged in the order of the settlement of the islands; that means Tongan, Maori, and Hawaiian art come last, as such places were the last to be settled. Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 Shows Tongan canoes, with sails and cabins, and two Tongan men paddling a smaller canoe in the foreground; derived from "Boats of the Friendly Isles" a record of Cook's visit to Tonga, 1773-4, during his second circumnavigation of the world.

Hodges, William, 1744-1797. drawn from nature by W Hodges. Engraved by W Watts. No. XLII. Published Feb[ruary] 1st, 1777, by Wm Strahan, in New Street Shoe Lane, and Thos Cadell in the Strand, London. - Alexander Turnbull Library

 

 Two Tongan young women. 

George Brown, D.D. - George Brown, D.D. Pioneer-missionary and explorer an Autobiography. London MCMVIII

 

 Beschreibung: Unterstand für Pirogen (Schiffe), 1832 Quelle: http://www.tongaturismo.info/old-tonga/stampe-24.jpg Lizenz: gemeinfrei, da abgelaufen de:Kategorie:Bild:Bauwerk

 

 

Vavaʻu (Tonga) girls playing traditional games: l->r: hiko, ula, meʻetuʻupaki, fisipā

Tauʻolunga - original unknown; source Jennifer Shennam

 

 Mała figurka z kości słoniowej zakupiona na Fidżi w 1868r. - Tonga - 002026snieznany

 

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