"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...

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...