Lucy Aukafolau

Lucy Aukafolau is an artist of Tongan and European descent. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. Based in Auckland, her practice is concerned with the theory of psychogeography and its relationship to the physical actions of navigation, travel and negotiation of space that reveal new territories and experiences.

CIRCUIT Resources

Essay by Mark Williams (2017)
Essay by Thomasin Sleigh (2014)

CIRCUIT Projects

Home Movies, CIRCUIT / AURA Festival of Artists Moving Images, Wellington (2019)
Mappings: Landscape, Memory, Histories, Blue Oyster, Dunedin (2019) / APERTURE: Asia & Pacific Film Festival, London, UK (2018)
Trans-Pacific Transmissions: Video Art across the Pacific (2017) Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada

Selected Exhibitions

2019
Mappings: Landscape, Memory, Histories, Blue Oyster, Dunedin

2018
Mappings: Landscape, Memory, Histories, APERTURE: Asia & Pacific Film Festival
Modern Movements, Te Uru Contemporary Gallery, Auckland

2016
Trans-Pacific Transmissions: Video Art across the Pacific, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada

2014
Other Waters: Art on the Manukau, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau
Tonga ‘i Onopooni: Tonga Contemporary, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua