Geoffery Matautia’s First Solo Exhibition | Community Service: Family Portraits
What does service look like as a Pacific artist within your community? Upon rediscovering his own family portraits, Geoffery Matautia was reminded of the importance of capturing these moments, and the value Pacific people place on the documentation of their loved ones. To create this new series of work Geoffery utilised social media to reach out to his community. These are the portraits of the families that have participated so far.
This project was developed during Geoffery’s artist in residence for Te Tuhi’s artist development programme Papatūnga. Papatūnga is run by Edith Amituanai and James Tapsell-Kururangi.
“Community Service: Family Portraits” is Geoffery’s first solo exhibition.
Geoffery Matautia bio
Based in South Auckland, Geoffery is a photographer and creative, a member of the art collective Raroboys and founder of Period7. Geoffery has worked with and created content for the likes of Re:News, Fibre Fale, and was the stills photographer for TV show Still here (winner of Voyager Media Best video documentary series 2023). His work has been published in Sunday, New Zealand Geographic, Viva and Ensemble.
Exhibition Opening Event:
Wed 4 Oct, 6 - 8pm at Tautai Gallery.
Entry is free. Light refreshments provided.
Exhibition Dates & Hours:
Thu 5 Oct, 10am - 4pm
Fri 6 Oct, 10am - 4pm
Sat 7 Oct, 11am - 4pm
Closed Sunday
Mon 9 Oct, 10am - 4pm
Tue 10 Oct, 10am - 4pm
Wed 11 Oct, 10am - 4pm