Blog: I'm A Deckhead

Dandy (from 'Digital Marae' series) 2007 When I went to the Art Gallery of New South Wales I came across these amazing portraits by Lisa Reihana. She is a Maori artist who explores her background's mythology and contemporary culture through her work, shown by the juxtapositions forever present and the bi-cultural living in a postmodernist representation. She appropriates important oral histories and customary lore, communicating them to a wider audience, making them available to a collective Aotearoa New Zealand consciousness through their contemporary presentation With Dandy , Reihana imagines first encounters [...]