Tungane Broadbent (born 1940,
Mangaia, Cook Islands) is a
Cook Islands artist, notable for her
tivaevae
Tivaevae or tivaivai ( rar, tīvaevae) in the Cook Islands, tifaifai in French Polynesia, is a form of artistic quilting traditionally done by Polynesian women. The word literally means "patches", in reference to the pieces of material sewn togeth ...
/tivaivai, with her career making tivaivai spanning five decades.
Broadbent founded the O’oa Fabric & Fibre Arts group in 2007,
Rarotonga
Rarotonga is the largest and most populous of the Cook Islands. The island is volcanic, with an area of , and is home to almost 75% of the country's population, with 13,007 of a total population of 17,434. The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings a ...
, to teach women to sew tivaivai.
In 2006,
Queensland Art Gallery commissioned her to produce a Mangaian tivaivai for the 5th Asia Pacific Triennial which is a feature of the Modern Art Gallery, hosted by Premier of
Queensland Peter Beattie on behalf of the Queensland Government.
In 2015,
Creative New Zealand brought Tungane Broadbent, along with five other senior artists from the Cook Islands to
New Zealand to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Cooks Islands self-governance.
In the same year, Tungane had an exhibition with
Vereara Maeva-Taripo
Vereara Maeva-Taripo (also Vereara Maeva, Vereara Teariki Monga Maeva, Vearea Ngarangi Teariki Maeva BEM; born Aitutaki, August 27, 1940; died 2019) was a Cook Islander political organizer also known for her quilting of tivaevae.
Biography
Mae ...
in Queensland Art Gallery named ''Tivaevae.''
''Kaute (Hibiscus)'' made by Tungane and Vereara Maeva-Taripo was acquired by
Christchurch Art Gallery.
Tungane collaborated with renowned
New Zealand artist
Reuben Paterson
Reuben Paterson (born 1973 Auckland, New Zealand) (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi, Scottish) is a New Zealand artist based in New York, United States known for using glitter in his works.
Early life
Paterson's family comes from Ma ...
three times, firstly ''Today, Tomorrow & Yesterday'' in
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga in 2017, second time ''Nga Meka Tui Kura'' in Aotearoa Art Fair,
Auckland, New Zealand in 2022, and third time ''Nga Meka Tui Kura (Epilogue),'' Bergman Gallery in Rarotonga in 2023.
In 2023, Tungane designed ''
'Chandelier and Chalice - Mori Tautau e te Kapu Oro’a''
' and the tivaivai was made by the women of
Atiu/Enuamanu with support from the New Zealand High Commission funds, and displayed in
Cook Islands National Museum
The Cook Islands National Museum is a museum in Avarua on Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands. Its collection includes contemporary and historic artefacts, as well as replicas of objects in foreign institutions.
Background
A purpose-built museum bu ...
.
Tungane's work is held in many public and private collections internationally such as Cook Islands National Museum,
Queensland Art Gallery, Christchurch Art Gallery,
and The Arts House Trust.
Selected solo exhibitions
* 2014: ''Grandmothers Legacy'', BCA Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Selected group exhibitions
* 2023: ''Te Vaerua O Te Va'ine - Our Mother's Hands'',
Bergman Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
* 2023: ''Nga Meka Tui Kura (Epilogue),'' Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
* 2022: ''Nga Meka Tui Kura,'' Aotearoa Art Fair, Auckland, New Zealand
* 2020: ''Tatou 2, The Story of Us'', Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
* 2019: ''Kia Maeva Tatou'', Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
* 2017: ''Today, Tomorrow & Yesterday'', Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
* 2016: Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture, Guam
* 2015: ''Tivaevae: Tungane Broadbent & Vereara Maeva-Taripo'',
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
* 2006: 5th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
References
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Cook Island artists
Quilters
1940 births
Living people
People from Mangaia
21st-century textile artists
21st-century women textile artists