: Founded in 1992, this collective of Māori and Pacific artists uses fashion, performance, and film to explore "fashion activism". Their work often highlights urban Pacific and Queer identities, pushing back against the invisibility of their community in mainstream narratives. Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda
The Pacific is often imagined as endless horizon, palm silhouette, a single shimmering paradise. Pacific Girls Galleries refuses that flattening simplicity. Across three intimate spaces and a network of pop-up shows, this project gathers artists who trace island histories, diasporic migrations, and queer, feminist, and intergenerational lives in brushstrokes, film grain, and textile seam lines. The gallery’s curators—rooted in the region yet working internationally—anchor each exhibition in oral histories and community collaboration, so work arrives already in conversation: elders’ memories hum beneath neon abstractions; family snapshots are reworked into protest banners; tapa cloth patterns become staccato glyphs in contemporary collage. pacific girls galleries better