Posts Tagged ‘Wallace Arts Trust’

Tongan Artist’s Christian themed tapa wins top award

Friday, September 11th, 2015

A  tapa cloth depicting traditional Tongan figures of divinity within a contemporary Christian context has won this year’s Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award. The New Zealand Herald desceribes Visesio Poasi Siasau’s  work as tapa cloth measures 4.4m by 18m. “But these words hardly capture the ambition and strangeness of the artist’s work,” says Scott Hamilton. Read more