New Annual - Muse: Angela Tiatia

Presented by Newcastle Art Gallery, Muse is first major survey of globally recognised and Newcastle-based artist Angela Tiatia. Drawing together twenty years of video, photography and installation, this exhibition invites audiences to be immersed in the largest ever presentation of Angela Tiatia's visually luscious and politically incisive art practice. This timely exhibition celebrates the artist's poetic considerations of climate, capitalism, and colonisation.

Angela Tiatia is a Sāmoan/Australian artist based in Newcastle. For the past 20 years, she has explored global power structures and their impact on Pasifika communities. Tiatia explores contemporary culture through performance, moving image, painting, sculpture and photography, drawing out the relationships between representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of body and place. Often through the lenses of history, popular and material culture, the artist moves deftly in her compositions of still and moving image from pointed detail to satellite view addressing themes within power structures and how these impact the individual and their communities.