KIRI TAWHAI

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Kiri Tawhai is a proud Noongar, Ngapuhi and NgatiTuwharetoa woman who grew up on Jaburara Country amongst the red dirt and the spinifex and the beautiful islands of the Dampier Archipelago.

A mother of three, an Aunty, a sister, a daughter, a cousin and a niece, Kiri has had a lifelong love of art in all forms and graduated Deakin University with a Bachelor Degree in Visual Arts in 2019. She is an Artist, Curator, Collaborator and Mentor, who has had a collaborative artwork exhibited in Tokyo, curated multiple exhibitions and held a solo show in Geelong.

A multimedia artist, Kiri is a storyteller with a passion for learning and sharing Knowledge and respecting old ways of knowing and doing within a contemporary world. Many of Kiri’s works are socially collaborative and feature a playful and colourful element, this comes from her love of connecting to people, to exploring collective thoughts especially when it comes to themes of identity, finding ones place in the world and the threads that show the similarity between each other’s journey.

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