THE BIG ART TRIP. SERIES 1. EPISODE 02

Nick Ward and Douglas Lloyd Jenkins s travel about New Zealand and visit artists in their studio environments. 0:05:17 - The Big Art Trip: Auckland.
Interviews: Ani O’Neill, sculptor - friend’s of ‘Pacific Sisters’; Deborah Smith, Victoria Ferguson and Mark Smith, CAKE Photographer; Greer Twiss, NZ Sculptor - 1969 K road work; Gerald Phillips, multi-media artist (music video’s); Emily Karaka, painter; Gregory King, film maker; Lawrence & Jacquelyn King; Rosalie Carey, actress.
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Ani O’Neill was born in Auckland in 1971 and is of Cook Island descent. She creates installation based work using a range of mediums including craft, performance, video and text. Her work draws on traditional female practices from the Cook Islands that her grandmother taught her: weaving, planting and sewing. It also draws on the Pacific tradition of working in co-operation,
not isolation, with other artists. Through these mediums she plays with ideas of dualism (art and craft, male and female) and comments on her identity as a Pacific Islander. In this extract she is interviewed in her studio, then takes us on a trip to the Auckland City Gallery to see a site specific work where viewers are encouraged to learn crocheting.