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Siliga David Setoga (Lona i Fagaloa, Tulaele & Vaitele i Faleata, Vailoa Palauli, Si'ufaga Fa'asaleleaga, Lauli'i, Letogo & Vailele i Vaimauga, Tanugamanono i Apia) was born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau, after his parents migrated to Aotearoa in the 1960s. Setoga graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in 2013, majoring in Performance, from Whitecliffe College of Art and design. In 2022, he graduated with a Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary), and is currently teaching at Otahuhu College in Visual Arts and Technology where he hopes to inspire the next generation of artmakers, thinkers and tutu-ers.

Setoga’s practice focuses on Aotearoa based Pacific experiences. His work has been exhibited widely and in several significant exhibitions, with work held in the British Museum Collection, Te Papa o Tongarewa, Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Christchurch Art Gallery. Setoga was a part of the Savage K’lub which performed at the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial, and was the Creative New Zealand Artist in Residence in conjunction with the National University of Samoa in 2015.

Setoga and his wife operate a screen printing and design company, www.popohardwear.com. The business started by selling t-shirts at a fleamarket in Otara, Tāmaki Makaurau, in the early 2000s, and is now exclusively online.

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Esther Mauga is a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised, Samoan (Salea’aumua, Apia) and palagi artist. Raised in Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia, they use art to help them understand and accept the historical circumstances that dictate the vast Moana diasporic experience and their own place within the world, and how they can best love and serve their islands & aiga from this particular experience.

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Kristal.G is a lokey painter, guitarist, mother of four and co-founder of Woodfired Pottery with her partner Jack Tilson in New Lynn, Tāmaki Makaurau.

Kristal’s creativity is led by obsessive curiosity and a criticality that leads her research towards significant and urgent histories. Kristal's work talks about sticky politics, tragedies, historical atrocities and contemporary living with humor and sass.