Pati Solomona Tyrell

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Pati Tyrell
Born (1992-08-11) 11 August 1992 (age 30)
Hamilton, New Zealand
NationalitySamoan
StyleInterdisciplinary Artist/ Performance, lens based mediums
Awards2020 Creative NZ Pasifika Arts 'Emerging Pacific Artist Award'

Pati Solomona Tyrell (born 11 August 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist from New Zealand who focuses on performance, videography and photography. [1] [2] Tyrell is a founding member of art collective FAFSWAG. In 2018 Tyrell became the youngest nominee for the Walters Prize, New Zealand's most prestigious contemporary art award, [3] for the video work Fāgogo, subsequently purchased by Auckland Art Gallery. [4] In 2020 Tyrell won the Arts Pasifika Awards' Emerging Pacific Artist Award. [5]

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Biography

Tyrell was born in Hamilton of Samoan descent. His father is Apulu Solomona Tyrell from the village of Faleasiu, Samoa and his mother is Aoatea Tyrell from the village of Fagali'i, Samoa. [2]

Tyrell attended Fairfield Primary School, Fairfield Intermediate and Hamilton Boys' High School, graduating in 2010. [6] He relocated to Auckland to study a Bachelor of Creative Arts program at the Manukau Institute of Technology, based in Otara, graduating in 2017. [3] [2]

Tyrell is co-founder of the art collective FAFSWAG, and one of the principal photographers. [7] FAFSWAG is the first brown queer arts collective who have been significant in New Zealand. [8] [4] It was established in 2013. [9] FAFSWAG is formed of nine Pacific and Māori artists:  Jermaine Dean, Falencie Filipo, Tanu Gago, Tapuaki Helu, Elyssia Wilson Heti, Nahora Ioane, Moe Laga-Toleafoa, Tim Swann, Tyrell and James Waititi. They are known socially for Auckland's underground vogue ball scene and for collective interdisciplinary works based on transforming the visual representation of the Pacific queer brown bodied chronology within Aotearoa, New Zealand. [10]

In 2018 Tyrell was nominated for the Walters Prize for Fāgogo, a video work subsequently purchased by Auckland Art Gallery. [4]

Tyrell has a strong focus on performance and lens based mediums. He creates content that draws from personal experiences growing up in the Pacific brown bodied and queer diaspora within New Zealand in hopes to bring awareness for Pasifika queerness in New Zealand. [2]

Tyrell utilises lens-based media to create visually engaging artworks that explore ideas of urban Pacific queer identity through interdisciplinary visual art, in hope to give a voice and something for the younger queer Pasifika communities to visualise and see. [2]

Fāgogo

Fāgogo is the name of moving image film that was nominated for the 2020 New Zealand Walters prize. Fāgogo was made in 2016, and is 9.04 minutes duration with song by Hala Kuo Papa called Over Trodden Path. [11]

Poetry composed by Her Majesty Queen Salote Tupou III. [12] Fāgogo refers to the Fa'a Samoa word for spoken fables in a shared context. [5] In Samoa fāgogo was remembered as the story telling after a hard day work. Told by the older women and men there was an aspect of performance, spoken words and words that came with melodies. [13] The receiver of a fāgogo displays the beauty of these fables then being passed down appropriating its meaning and making it their own. [5]

In the film, Tyrell's research, writing, choreography, fashion design and styling comes together by allowing artists to respond to their own cultural heritage and by co-producing this project, Fāgogo honours traditions by 'unpacking the colonial gaze placed on queer brown bodies' and returning gender and sexual diversity to the world. Fāgogo is positioned as a restorative art practice that Pati Solomona Tyrell shares with other artists. [5]

Exhibitions

Awards

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