Mask  by Sione Monū

390mm x 530mm 

2024

Synthetic flowers, glitter card, fibre board, plastic & metallic beads

This piece is part of an ongoing series of brightly adorned cloud forms and masks.

Sione Monū (they/them) is an artist of the Tongan diaspora. They live between Canberra Australia and Auckland and work across the mediums of photography, moving-image, fashion and adornment, performance and drawing exploring identity, family and Pasifika queer experience in the diaspora.

Recent exhibitions include Stories, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, 2023; Queer Encounters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Warrane Sydney, 2023; Kindred: A Leitī Chronicle (w/ Manu Vaeatangitau), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022; Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022; 'Ao Kakala Ōtautahi, SCAPE Public Art Season 2021, Ōtautahi Christchurch, 2021, and Leitī, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2021.

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