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With plenty of sculptures and murals punctuating the flow of each block, it’s clear that downtown Springfield is a hub for the local art scene. While many Springfieldians enjoy checking
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There are treasures to be found from a range of artists.
RICKY WILSON/Stuff Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows and her daughter Tui Emma Gillies’s Voyagers: The Niu World will be exhibited at the Tautai Pacific Art Gallery at Karangahape Rd in Auckland’s CBD on February 19. Burrows learnt tapa-making from her mother at Falevai village on Vava’u in Tonga. It was from her that she also learnt how to weave, sew, bake and make kahoa heilala (garland). When she migrated to New Zealand in 1978, Burrows took a break from crafts to raise her family but took it up again a few years later, selling plus-sized lingerie she’d made at the Ōtara markets.