FEATURE: Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi
Tongan artist Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi has a survey exhibition opening at Mangere Arts Centre on 7 September in which he shows a range of work produced over the last twenty years. This show will demonstrate the depth of Filipe’s work and the range of medium he has worked in.
Filipe also has work on Karangahape Road publicising that areas adoption of ‘Team Tonga’ for the upcoming RWC – look for the big billboard on the side of the Langham Hotel fronting KRd. Also this morning we were at the official ‘unveiling’ of Filipe’s wonderful lightbox at the western end of the new look bus shelters on KRd. We understand there will be two more lightboxes installed shortly.
EXHIBITION
27 August – 6 November
Neo-colonial Extracts. Angela Tiatia at Te Tuhi, Pakuranga, Auckland South
7 September – 22 October
Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi – survey exhibition. Mangere Arts Centre Nga Tohu o Uenuku, Auckland South
8 September – 1 October
Foreign Objects. Angela Tiatia at Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland South
17 August – 3 September
Po Uliuli Poutasi. Fatu Feu’u at Warwick Henderson Gallery, Bath Street, Parnell
16 August – 10 September
The Factory – a Pacific Musical by Kila Kokonut Krew at Mangere Arts Centre Nga Tohu o Uenuku, Mangere, Auckland South. www.eventfinder.co.nz to book