FREE EVENT

Come along for a drop-in kahoa making workshop using real flowers, as a way to ponder the ideas of intangible inheritance explored in He momo, nā te whanau—it’s a family trait: The 2nd Aotearoa Contemporary Jewellery Triennial.

Working with extended family in Tonga and Tāmaki Makaurau as their subject matter and inspiration; Sione explores how adornment can reflect the connections between people and their social, cultural and spiritual environments.

Everything you need will be provided; all skill-levels welcome!

Sione Monū, Flora, Canberra family portraits, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Heald Gallery. Photo by Peter Wing

About Sione Monū:

Sione Monū (they/them) is an artist of the Tongan diaspora. They live between Canberra Australia and Auckland and work across the mediums of photography, moving-image, fashion, adornment, performance and drawing to explore identity, family and Pasifika queer experience in the diaspora. Their recent exhibitions include Stories, City Gallery Wellington (2023); The way we were, Robert Heald, Wellington (2023); Queer encounters, Art gallery of NSW, Sydney (2022); Kindred: A Leitī Chronicle (w/ Manu Vaeatangitau), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2021); ’Ao Kakala, Ōtautahi, SCAPE Public Art Season , Christchurch (2021 )and Leitī, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2021)