Pacific Presences

Oceanic art and European museums

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

The Pacific Presences project has officially come to a close. You can follow the team members on their own accounts @alana_jelinek @clarkers @CarreauLucie @OceaniaCurator @maianuku or read our @sidestone publications https://t.co/CV0TYAplLk

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

Areta Wilkinson ‘applies stone technologies and ‘archaic’ tools in an activity of recalling, drawing on customary forms and traditional methods to create new forms’ (apt cat) @QAGOMA #APT9QAGOMA

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

For those visiting from the Pacific between now and December and wanting to see Oceania:

'Entry to the exhibition is free for New Zealand and Pacific Island passport holders. Show passport at exhibition entrance. No need to book in advance.'

https://t.co/S2AxwltyWC

[Pauline Reynolds @punahere]

In Hawai’i, humbly learning from the masters #tapanarratives

[Pauline Reynolds @punahere]

Hawai’i. Learning from the masters. The very young and the not so young.

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

Available now: A Clark, R Howie, L Leckie, K Watson & C Charteris (2018) Many hands, many voices: an interdisciplinary approach to exhibiting Kiribati coconut fibre armour, Journal of the Institute of Conservation. https://t.co/O7Spe13zEN @RachelAlmaHowie @LizLeckie2 @clarkers

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

Oceania is now open. As Pacific Presences draws to a close we encourage all to visit this monumental exhibition; an outcome of the project co-curated by PI Nick Thomas and Visiting Fellow Peter Brunt.

[Royal Academy @royalacademy]

#RAOceania is now open! Explore the dazzling and diverse art from the region of Oceania, from the historic to the contemporary: https://t.co/flxvuy5Wbx

[Pacific Tapa @UofG_Barkcloth]

Call for Papers announced for a one-day symposium on the conservation of barkcloth material from any part of the world - https://t.co/nzqLKjFuBy

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

Mini launch for Fighting Fibres this evening @IconEthnography event on Kiribati armour. Congrats @RachelAlmaHowie @BencePolly @OceaniaCurator @clarkers

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

New display of Kiribati artefacts in @HornimanMuseum World Gallery including a awesome new helmet by Chris Charteris @LizLeckie2

[Museum of Zoology, Cambridge @ZoologyMuseum]

Ahead of our grand reopening on Saturday, we spoke to @guardian about the new museum and some incredible discoveries we made whilst moving the collection. #MoaFeathers!
https://t.co/gARi99Mrai

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

@ZoologyMuseum @guardian @maevesther Amazing news!

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

Here’s PP team member Erna discussing experiences of doing fieldwork on fibre skirts in PNG in the brilliant ‘stories with things’ panel #RAIArt2018

[Maya Wassell Smith @MayaWasselSmith]

Wonderful panel at #RAIArt2018 this morning - Stories with things: processing materials and generating social worlds. Emphasis on the making process and the use of materials and techniques vital to understanding craft in a community setting.

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

We are pleased to announce that Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections is now available for purchase, download and as a free online resource. Thanks and congrats to editors @OceaniaCurator @BencePolly @clarkers and contributors @RachelAlmaHowie @LizLeckie2 🇰🇮

[Melanie Hollis @meloonameloona]

#ThrowbackThursday to when I attempted to replicate coconut fibre armour @MAACambridge looking forward to reading the new book! @PPresences #fightingfibres #kiribass #handsonlearning

[Pacific Presences @PPresences]

PP officially ends next week, and we are excited to announce that Fighting Fibres will be available for purchase and download on Saturday, whilst our two volume project book is currently being mocked up by our amazing publishers @sidestone https://t.co/XCqID4xnsl

[Plant Humanities UK @PlantHums_UK]

What’s hiding in your collection? We’re looking for specimens dispersed from Kew in the 19th and 20thc #KewMobileMuseum #economicbotany

[Sidestone Press @sidestonepress]

An upcoming (double) volume in our @PPresences series. These two volumes deal with the vast and extraordinary collections from the Pacific, collected from the late eighteenth century onwards. Vol1: https://t.co/ttq51DSupT Vol2: https://t.co/LH5WQLMN7j

[Laura Van Broekhoven @prm_laurita]

@juergenzimmerer @CirajRassool Don’t know, however, if we do justice to the different agencies involved by categorically declaring all collections as ‘stolen’. There are many ways collecting was done. Ranging from atrocious plundering to conscious gifting and/or trading or even collaborative making/research.