Something old something new

Multimedia artist Lisa Reihana commended at the 2002 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art for her current “work in progress,” Digital Marae. The large-scale photographs dramatise female mythological figures in an exploration of matriarchy in Maori culture. Art Monthly Australia: “…it is the experimental work by younger artists like Song Dong, or Lisa Reihana’s dialogue with the fluidity of tradition that produces the most clever and thoroughly museum-quality objects…”