Its been two years since the Step Folem Step exhibition was held for the first time at Fondation Suzanne Bastien in Port Vila, show casing new art work created as part of the Niu Yam Fellowship that ran from 2019/2020. Now we’ve made an online version of the exhibition which can be found at https://stepfolemstep.net/
The Niu Yam artists collective, formed during the Niu Yam Vanuatu Artists Fellowship 2019-2020 has remounted the Step Folem Step exhibition at Alliance Francaise Port Vila to give access to the work to new...
The logo for Remix/Rimix was designed and painted by Vanuatu artist Derik Narsong Taleo, with graphic design by artist Daniel Owen.
Photograph by Niki Kauatonga, exhibited as part of Step Folem Step exhibition, Fondation Suzanne Bastien Gallery, Port Vila, Vanuatu, September 2020 2020 was an unexpectedly challenging year, where lots of...
The Rimix – Negotiating Contemporary Arts and Custom in the Pacific project is supporting collaborative arts practice and undertaking qualitative research with contemporary Ni-Vanuatu artists to explore how creative re-use of traditional knowledge is being negotiated and managed by ni-Vanuatu artists, kastom knowledge owners, communities and cultural organisations.
REMIX1 included the works of a number of contemporary female artists from Vanuatu, including photographers Stephanie Ephraim and Georgina Kaitiplel and painter Amelia Lovo. Further Arts trainee media maker...
Christopher Tevi has been working with kastom forms and materials in his artwork for many years. He is best known for his works on tapa (bark cloth) using graphic styles drawn from traditional sand drawing In...
Pontiano Taissets talks with Mars Melto about Nvetour Neroure Melnatoro, the Two Stone Independent Nasara and the art work and song Pontiano presented as part of the REMIX1 exhibition at Fondation Suzanne...
The REMIX1 Exhibition included works curated from an open call out to artists and cultural producers to contribute to the exhibition. One such cultural practitioner was Vivian Obed, who worked with her family...
Acrobatic artist Yvannic Lassa performed a silk acrobatics act at the REMIX1 exhibition, telling the traditional story of Titamol. Yvannic trained with Wan Smolbag Theatre and learnt the art of silk...