Continuum
It all begins with an idea.
Continuum is a game where you explore your heritage through conversation and tactile play.
Gold Pin Winner Student Public Good
Role
Designer
Year
2018
Exhibitions
Creative Humans, Ōrakei Local Board, 2022
World of Cultures: Pā Nui, 2022
Yölk Fest, 2021
AUT Brightside, 2020
In ‘Continuum’, players begin at the centre of the board and start each round by revealing two opposing statements about heritage. These statements form questions which guide players through a conversation about their personal connection with their heritage. At the end of the game, the players’ answers will be mapped out on the board.
Over 2022 and 2023, Continuum has engaged with local communities at libraries across Tāmaki Makaurau.
Available to hire for exhibitions and events.
Continuum is beautifully hand-crafted by the creator from plywood using laser-cutting and woodworking techniques.
The board design is inspired by family tree diagrams, and antique Chinese tables to draw upon the social significance of the table as a place of gathering and community.
To Grow Roots Where They Land
It all begins with an idea.
落地⽣根
A series of portraits telling the story of 6 descendants of Chinese Refugee wives who arrived in Aotearoa during 1939-1940.
Role
Graphic Design
Writer
Year
2021
Commissioned by
Britomart
Collaborators
Photographer - John Rata
Historian - Lily Lee
For Lunar New Year 2021, Britomart commissioned me to design a series of poster panels to be exhibited around the Britomart Pavilions, and flags located at the entrance of Takutai Square and around the precinct.
This exhibition would go alongside my Whale Tale, also commissioned by Britomart, which tells the migration story of early Chinese immigrants to Aotearoa. 落地⽣根 To Grow Roots Where They Land expands upon this narrative by sharing the story of the arrival of the Chinese refugee wives as told through their descendants. Chinese New Year is a time for families to be together, so it made sense for me to tell this significant point in Chinese New Zealand history.
Photos by Joe Hockley
This project was such a humbling experience getting to work with historian Lily Lee, and having the honour to learn and share the amazing stories of these six wonderful people and their families.
Britomart also published my interviews with the Chinese descendants
Tangita i Tāngita
An interactive installation where participants create and contribute individual pepeha tiles to an evolving wider national pepeha.
Finalist Student Public Good
Role
Game Designer
Year
2019
Collaborator
Olivia Hobman
Exhibitions
Moonlight Exhibition at Silo 6, Auckland Art Week, 2019
Tangata i Tāngata is a collaborative installation that aims to highlight New Zealand’s evolving multicultural national identity through connecting self to the collective. By creating and contributing their own personal ‘pepeha tile’, participants are encouraged to self-reflect on their own identity within a New Zealand-specific framework, and reflect on how they connect to the wider collective.
Photographs by Stefan Marks
Pepeha is a way of introducing yourself in Māori that acknowledges the people and places you are connected to. The Au to Whakawhānaungatanga framework locates au (self) at the centre of one’s expanding relationship networks.
Whale Tale: 新金山 New Gold Mountain
A painted sculpture telling the migration story of Aotearoa’s first non-European and Pacific settlers.
Role
Artist
Year
2022
Commissioned by
Britomart Group
Exhibitions
Whale Tales Auckland Art Trail
First arriving in the 1860s to work the abandoned gold claims in Otago, the Chinese have played an important and often overlooked role in the formation of Aotearoa’s multicultural identity. For the thousands of men who came in search of their fortune, and the wives and children who later followed, Aotearoa was 新金山, New Gold Mountain: a land full of golden promise for a better life.
Photographs by Joe Hockley
