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Born in Western Samoa in 1946 Fatu Feu’u moved to Auckland, New Zealand at the age of twenty. He worked through a series of jobs in the textile industy before committing himself as a fulltime artist in 1988. Feu’u has been consistently interested in traditional Pacific motifs and designs drawn from carving, tapa painting and tattooing but has combined these in a contemporary format and means of expression. He has made regular research trips to Samoa, the States and Europe pursueing the balance of Pacific and Western influences. Fatu works with a variety of media including stone carving, rug design, stain glass and printmaking but the base of his work is painting. In 1992 he won the Gordon Harris Printmaking Award and in 1995 the James Wallace Art Award. 1996 saw him Artist-in-Residence at the MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury and in the same year he won the Pacific Island Artists Award. Fatu Feu’u has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and has been included in significant exhibitions such as ‘Bottled Ocean’ Wellington City Gallery 1994, the Australian Contemoporary Art Fair 1998, ‘Pacific Renaissance’ 1999 at Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia and ‘Talofa Samoa’ at the Frankfurt Art Museum, Germany in 1999. |
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