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)
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