Kehe tau Hauaga Foou
(To All New Arrivals) (detail)
2007
enamel, oil and ink on canvas
courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery
Auckland

JOHN PULE Niue / New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery - NEW Gallery

Background

Born in Liku, Niue in 1962, John Pule emigrated to New Zealand in 1964, and is based in Auckland. Recent solo exhibitions include Niniko Lalolagi – Dazzling Worlds, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, 2004; John Pule, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich, 2005 and Another Green World, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, 2006. Pule's work has featured in Paradise Now?, Asia Society Museum, New York, 2004 and The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2006. Other recent group exhibitions include the 9th Festival of Pacific Arts, Belau, 2004; Future Tense: Security and Human Rights, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, 2005; Te Moananui a Kiwa, Auckland Art Gallery, 2005; and Tribute, Auckland Art Gallery, 2006. In 2003, Pule was artist in residence at the Cultural Museum, Rarotonga and in 2004 was made an Arts Laureate by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. Pule held the Romerapotheke Art Residency, Basel in 2005. His work is discussed by Nicholas Thomas in John Puhiatau Pule: Another Green World, 2006. Pule is also highly regarded as a poet and novelist, his collection of poetry, Restless People = Tagata Kapakiloi, was published in 2004.