SEPTEMBER 2025

SEPTEMBER 2025

PAST EVENTS
Found Object Hanging Sculpture

My Shaman Avatar

  • Day 2, Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
  • 12:00pm-2:00pm AEST
  • Presenter: Telly Tuita
  • Media: sculpture, wearable art & recycled materials
  • Skills developed: texture, colour, form, contrast; intercultural understanding & being fabulous.
Found Object Hanging Sculpture

About the Session

Found Object Hanging Sculpture

About the Session

Join Telly Tuita where you will build a hanging sculpture using recycled materials, objects, festive decorations and anything plastic, shiny, and colourful!!!

This workshop can be scaled to all learning stages and with any material/resource restrictions.

ARTIST

Telly Tuita

Artist
ARTIST

Telly Tuita

"We [artists] retell, we speculate, we investigate, we chronicle, we create, we instigate, we fabricate, we activate, we procrastinate, and we decorate"

Wellington-based artist Telly Tuita was born in Tonga in 1980 and immigrated to Sydney at age nine. Living in Australia for most of his life, Tuita’s disconnect from his Tongan heritage has long informed his practice. 

Exploring his cultural identity in a global and technological world and complex relationship with his ancestral home, this has led him to form a distinct visual language of hybrid aesthetics, 'Tongpop', born from the artist’s love of bright bold hues, alongside traditional Tongan ngatu patterns and religious iconography.

Scouring second-hand shops and dollar stores, Tuita creates assemblages of thrifted homewares and holiday trinkets with a playful pop colour palette. The works serve as a reminder of unique cultural practices and deities that have been lost over time, here they are reinvented through Tuita’s lens. Tuita creates a new narrative for the found objects, recasting them as relics of the modern age.

Telly Tuita completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Western Sydney University (1999-2003) before undertaking a Bachelor of Art Education at the University of New South Wales (2004). In 2011, Tuita completed a Master’s in Special Education through the University of Sydney.

Artwork Images