Lithography on Fijian masi
Filani Macassey | Fashion
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Overview
Filani Macassey (Fijian/ Tongan- Scottish) is a local artist based in Kaiwaka who is being supported by the Arts Foundation NZ as part of the 2023 Boosted X Moana crowdfunding campaign.
Crowdfunding will enable Macassey to further develop a project around her research into two WW2 pilots, one was her father’s younger brother and the other pilot a Fijian chief’s son. Both young men enrolled in the RNZAF and both died having earned their wings. The project wil look to connect Aotearoa and Fiji through creative and historical talanoa.
"I started looking at this project a year ago, it will be another year before it is ready to be exhibited. With the crowdfunding I will be working with the APS Editions director, John Pusateri on a stone lithograph, which will be printed on Fijian masi, a traditional hand beaten fibre."
The artist says the lithograph series will incorporate an ancient Pacific Island material with a printing process that dates back to the late eighteenth-century Europe with a focus on concepts of gestural line, colour, physics and philosophy.
Funds will cover an artist stipend, importing of masi from Fiji and professional photographs for the purpose of pitching the development of this project towards an exhibition.
Project Updates
It is important for our stories to be told, especially around the ominous topic of war.
My boosted fund raise is going well. Thank you to all those who have donated. I really do appreciate your support, as a confirmation of how important it is to tell our stories.
Any amount from 5, 10 to 40 or 50 dollars helps towards realising this project. Every dollar donated is reciprocated with the same value from Creative New Zealand.
I think it is important to tell our stories around how war can affect generations continuously. War is not an easy subject to consider as an artist.
Men seek to validate heroic acts, to validate the call to arms. We re-inact past battles, paint historic victories and pin badges on our soldiers.
But what of the individual stories? What about the family album? The pilots who died in a country thousands of miles away from loved ones. The solider buried in a blood soaked earth.
It will always be this way. War.
It is what I try to talk about when I work in this field. I am planing to put together a multi disciplinary exhibition starting with a lithograph around the WW2 pilots. Those who know my work will understand the scope I can take within an exhibition space. There is much more to come and a lot of work to be done!
Thank you for your support.
As of Friday 13th October I have $1470 NZD to raise.
2000 Crowd fund ( boosted campaign)
2000 CNZ top up dollar for dollar
4000 Total fund amount
Itenerary- Budget
3000 Lithography studio (APS Editions)
500 Fijian masi
500 Artist stipend
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Filani Macassey
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