Julia Mage'au Gray's guest appearances

Julia Mage'au Gray

ABC RN Arts

531pi

NUKU

The Art Show

Yuki Kihara

Marama Davidson

Walter Isaacson

Dawn Rasmussen

Richard Bell

Shannon Garson

Matt Brown

David Hockney

Michael Barnett

Olivia Laing

James Avery

Tina Havelock Stevens

Asad Raza

David Roberts

Hisham Matar

OwlTail

Six short films made by Pasifika talent have been selected for a pop-up screening this Sunday (day after tomorrow) at Event Cinemas Queen Street from 2pm to 6pm.  One of the films is Tep Tok (Tap Talk) about the importance of tattoo revival and the continuance of marking skin for the next generation.  ​This short documentary captures a series of Auckland conversations with Tepaeru Ariki Lulu French, Tyla Vaeau, Ema Tavola, Milly Koria Grant, Graham Tipene, Ahukata Keefe, Salevasa Gray, Georgie Williams and Moko Smith.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Six short films made by Pasifika talent have been selected for a pop-up screening this Sunday (day after tomorrow) at Event Cinemas Queen Street from 2pm to 6pm.  One of the films is Tep Tok (Tap Talk) about the importance of tattoo revival and the continuance of marking skin for the next generation.  ​This short documentary captures a series of Auckland conversations with Tepaeru Ariki Lulu French, Tyla Vaeau, Ema Tavola, Milly Koria Grant, Graham Tipene, Ahukata Keefe, Salevasa Gray, Georgie Williams and Moko Smith.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Julia Mage'au Gray - Tep Tok to be featured in Pasifika Film Festival 2020.

Across Oceania, tattoos or markings are a cultural statement of who you are. Julia Mage'au Gray is an Auckland-based dancer, photographer and filmmaker from Papua New Guinea who is reviving Melanesian skin marking.

Marking skin with Julia Mage'au Gray

Julia is a dancer, mark maker, storyteller. Of Papua New Guinean and Australian heritage, she created the film Tep Tok : Reading Between Our Lines, sharing the journey to raise awareness for the dying art form that she is helping revive through her hand poke and hand tap method. She talks to us about her practice, about women’s traditional roles in mark making, and reviving the old, to new old.

Julia is a dancer, mark maker, storyteller. Of Papua New Guinean and Australian heritage, she created the film <a href="https://www.melanesianmarks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tep Tok : Reading Between Our Lines</a>, sharing the journey to raise awareness for the dying art form that she is helping revive through her hand poke and hand tap method. She talks to us about her practice, about women’s traditional roles in mark making, and reviving the old, to new old.

//025 Julia Mage'au Gray