New Zealand/Aotearoa artist Niki Hastings-McFall presents an artist talk at UNSW Galleries, followed by a lei-bombing walk to Cement Fondu for the opening of the exhibition 'Here Is Your Horizon', curated by Talia Smith, which features Hastings-McFall’s work.

 

Here Is Your Horizon presents the voices of pacific heritage artists from Australia and New Zealand, each sharing experiences of what adornment means to them in contemporary pacific life and how it can be told through art making.

 

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Program presented in partnership with Cement Fondu.

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Niki Hastings-McFall was born and raised in Titirangi, West Auckland. She was educated at Auckland Girl's Grammar, Auckland University and Manukau School of Visual Arts and has a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a tertiary teaching diploma. Her work deals with themes of cultural identity and often refers to Pacific cross-cultural histories and colonial legacies.

In describing Hastings-McFall’s practice, Helen Kedgley writes: "Drawing on the traditions of Pacific adornment, Hastings-McFall has created her own unique art practice that explores what it means to be a New Zealander of Pacific Island descent living in the twenty-first century."

 

Hastings McFall has exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand and overseas since 1992 and her work is held in public and private collections nationally and internationally, including the Chartwell Trust, British Museum, GOMA, Museum of Volkekund-Germany, Tjibaou Centre-Noumea, Museum of NZ- Te Papa Tongarewa, University of Auckland, Victoria University, Pacific Notion, Macy Gallery New York & Sydney College Arts 2001-Whitespace (formerly Pacific Artspace); Melbourne Artfair 2000-Whitespace (formerly Pacific Artspace); and many others.

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Image: Niki Hastings McFall lei-bombing installation at Bruce McLaren School, New Zealand.