Originally from New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea but living primarily in Port Moresby, Alvin Amana wanted to return to the...

- Elaine from Nambis Events speaks with Barbara Angoro Image: via Barbara Angoro - Twitter Smart is smart, but when smart stops, hard...

"As is my process before I mark someone; I look at the body as a whole and as our women did before us, choose where and what to be marked...

Travelling to and from my birthplace and the country that birthed my passion to express my cultural identity, I have, as a trained...

As part of the APT8 opening 'Live' performances at QAGOMA in Brisbane, Australia, Sunameke Productions directed by Julia Mageau Gray,...

- Originally posted as 'The Hidden Wharenui in Fitzroy' on teptok.com, April 2015. In 2015, The Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival had...

My time at the ‘Traditional Tattoo and World Culture Festival’ in Mallorca was an eye opener for me into the ‘tattoo world’. My world of...

A conversation between Julia Mage’au Gray and Ema Tavola Papatoetoe, Auckland (January 2018) penned by Ema Tavola. - originally published...

Introducing Terita Gamoga Toea and her revareva. (Terita’s story in brief. Full version coming up in the Tep Tok : Our Lines Connect Us...

Our Bubu’s (Grandmother’s) wore the marks of their families, clans, villages and regions. Their marks afforded them respect, an immediate...

Dance is an intricate part of Nesian culture. We can be identified by the way we sway our hips or the manner which we tilt our head or hold

What happens when you take the maiden out of that context, when you shift the maiden into the modern reality of urban Auckland and they are

Sunameke performed A'inaisa as a response to the cultural compromise we are asked to make on a daily basis in regards to our way of...

Sharing the words of Moale James This year while on a family trip to PNG I received the opportunity to carry the permanent markings of my...