Letila Mitchell (Founder, Secretary General)

Arts practise: Visual and performing arts Profession: Secretary General, Pacific Arts Alliance Director, Fiji Arts Council Artistic Director, Rako Heritage: Rotuman/ English Based in: Fiji Current projects: - Pacific Del ...

Ian George

I make a use of a bright palette and drawing from Cook Islands/Pacific totems and iconography. I often explore the ironies of repatriation of artifacts and the ambiguities created with the use anthropological and sociological phrases inserted into th ...

Vilsoni Hereniko (Executive Member)

Professor Vilsoni Hereniko is based at the Center for Pacific Island Studies at the University of Hawai'i. He is an accomplished writer, theatre director and film producer. Hereniko has produced two plays, The Last Virgin in Paradise and Fine Danci ...

Vavia Tumarae (Website Coordinator)

I am originally from the island of Tubuai among the Austral Islands in French Polynesia. I mostly grew up in Tahiti (Papara) where I also went to school. In 2004 I mastered my baccalaureate in Economic Sciences and Social Work, right after my baccalau ...

Rhoda Roberts (Executive Member)

Currently is the Festival Director for the Dreaming Festival. A member of the Bundjalung nation, Wiyebal clan of Northern NSW and South East QLD, Rhoda was also one of 24 Australians selected as Creative Directors to the Sydney Organising Committee ...

Patrice Kaikilekofe

Ole Maiava

Currently Pasifika Festival director for Auckland City Council, is also an independent film maker, actor, broadcaster, musician, published poet and short story writer. He is also an exhibited visual artist and sculptor. He has worked as HOD of Maor ...

Lambert Ho

Lambert Ho was born in the western part of Fiji on the island of Viti-Levu, namely Lautoka and was raised in a home that sat in the shadows of huge towering black chimneys which belched out grey ash and smoke everyday from the sugar mill that exported ...

Karawa Areieta

Karawa Areieta is originally from the Kiribati in the Pacific, He was a Fine Arts teacher to both junior and senior forms in a government secondary school since 1988 to 1995. In 1996 he went to study at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane f ...

Ela To’omaga

Daniel Waswas (Chair)

He is the current Chair of the Pacific Arts Alliance - a celebrated Papua New Guinean Fine Artist, Educator and the Founder of GalleryPNG. He completed a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and a Bachelor in Art & Design fr ...

Anton Carter (Founder, Co-Chair)

A founding member of Pacific Arts Alliance, employed by Creative New Zealand (Arts Council Toi Aotearoa) for the past 9 years as the Pacific arts adviser and current role is Strategy Adviser, Pacific Arts. Responsibilities include; developing strategies ...

Alisa Sera Vavataga

Alisa grew up in the Solomon Islands but she comes from a long and mixed lineage of Polynesian and Melanesian artisans from the Lau Province of the Fiji Islands. Alisa has participated in many group exhibitions and has worked, to date, on private c ...