The Process - Making Marks
"As is my process before I mark someone; I look at the body as a whole and as our women did before us, choose where and what to be marked...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Jun 4, 2019
- 2 min
“From Old to New Old, That's How We Go Forward..."
Travelling to and from my birthplace and the country that birthed my passion to express my cultural identity, I have, as a trained...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- May 13, 2019
- 6 min
“Caution”
As part of the APT8 opening 'Live' performances at QAGOMA in Brisbane, Australia, Sunameke Productions directed by Julia Mageau Gray,...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- May 7, 2019
- 5 min
I Like It, I Want It, I'll Take It.
- Originally posted as 'The Hidden Wharenui in Fitzroy' on teptok.com, April 2015. In 2015, The Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival had...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- May 7, 2019
- 4 min
‘Traditional Tattoo and World Culture Festival, 2017'
My time at the ‘Traditional Tattoo and World Culture Festival’ in Mallorca was an eye opener for me into the ‘tattoo world’. My world of...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Jun 5, 2018
- 6 min
Talking with Ema Tavola
A conversation between Julia Mage’au Gray and Ema Tavola Papatoetoe, Auckland (January 2018) penned by Ema Tavola. - originally published...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Mar 15, 2018
- 1 min
Three Months with Terita
Introducing Terita Gamoga Toea and her revareva. (Terita’s story in brief. Full version coming up in the Tep Tok : Our Lines Connect Us...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Mar 8, 2018
- 2 min
My Mother’s Skin
Our Bubu’s (Grandmother’s) wore the marks of their families, clans, villages and regions. Their marks afforded them respect, an immediate...
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Julia Mage’au Gray
- Sep 1, 2015
- 4 min
Carrying Culture
Sharing the words of Moale James This year while on a family trip to PNG I received the opportunity to carry the permanent markings of my...
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