Fault Lines

Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous Futures for Colonial Collections

The Fault Lines exhibition brought together four indigenous pacific curators and four artists, to interrogate and respond to colonial-era collections held in British museums.

My brief was to cohesively represent the curatorial journeys, geographies and cultures of Bougainville, Hawaii, Torres Strait and Central Coast Salish with the main focus on the geological formations and seismic shifts - both physical and historical - which connect them across the pacific ocean.   

My role as exhibition designer covered the following;

• Distilling ideas from the curators’ synopses

• Conceptualising spatial and colour layout

• Textile pattern design

• Graphic design house style

• Production of 3D renderings

• Creation of web and print media

The exhibition was curated by: 

Dr Leah Lui-Chivizhe, Torres Strait Islands, Australia

Taloi Havini, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Ka Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi/Hawaiian Islands

Jordan Wilson, Coast Salish: Musqueam), Vancouver, Canada

New artworks were created by: 

Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, Nanaimo, Canada

Atheana Picha, Vancouver/Richmond, Canada

Kunāne Wooton, Mānā and Hanalei, Hawaiian Islands

Kapulani Landgraf, Pūʻahuʻula, Oʻahu, Hawaiian Islands

Exhibition Design: Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman

Fault Lines

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK,

6 December 2024  -  21 December 2025