COMMUNITY PROJECTS
Fai mea fakatahi is a Tokelau term that means doing things together as a collective, its describes a community working together to achieve a goal to benefits everyone. These values and connections have birthed many community projects and collaborations with other artists and communites. These collaborations started at Whitireia Polytech’s art department with fellow art students and tutors.
In Moana cultures, art is often a collective pursuit building community bounds and keeping stories alive through the generations.
Jack Kirifi has worked with schools, and community groups, on murals, commissions, teaching art, and woodcut printing workshops.
Fellow artists from Whitireia Polytech art department days. left to right Ernest Sami, Mose Viliamu, Liana Leiataua, Jack Kirifi, and the late Zac Mateo
' Cry of the Stolen People' art installation project created by Tokelau Arts Collective 2019
Artists co-lab on Cannons Creek 'legacy of champions mural
View from Rangituhi maunga of my home town Porirua.
Mana Island, Raukawa Moana, Porirua , New Zealand, (photo by Jack Kirifi) This is my playground and where I find peace and inspiration.
Fakaofo, Tokelau. Where my parents are from Photo by Jack Kirifi.
50% Art Exhibition , Tokelau art Exhibition. Works by Jack Kirifi and Mose Viliamu . Exploring Identity as New Zealand born Tokelau artists.
