Totems and Icons: The complexities of Aboriginal spirituality versus Christianity (1m x 1m)
About Me
- Seriously Serville
- Australia
- Born in Tauranga, New Zealand in 1949.... Arts columnist, Gulf News, Auckland, NZ (1992-2001)..... Invited to French Polynesia in 1994 to paint and exhibit a series of Tahitian paintings ...... In 2001 Sylvia migrated to Australia..... Studied Indigenous Australian culture via the University of South Australia (2003-2005)..... In 2007, she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia) ..... and is currently working on her Master of Arts Degree (University New South Wales)...... She is also currently working on a new body of work depicting the large number of Pacific Islanders who have settled in her new hometown, Brisbane...... Married (mother of three), Sylvia is also known as Sylvia Huege de Serville..... ...PUBLICATIONS..... 1999: Illustrated Maori language reader, KAPA HAKA for NZ author, Katerina Mataira (commissioned: NZ Dept. of Ed) 1991: Artwork published in 'Waiheke Art and Poetry' (Reid,Pamela,1991)