Suzanne Tamaki

Suzanne Tamaki is a New Zealand fibre-based artist of Te Arawa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Tūhoe descent.

She operates under the label Native Sista and was one of the founding members of the Pacific Sisters.

[1] Informed by indigenous concerns of New Zealand, Tamaki's jewellery, fashion and photography portrays a reclamation of colonised spaces.

[2] As Megan Tamati-Quenell writes of her work 'They are created conceptually, provocatively and with political intent'.

[3] A founding member of Pacific Sisters, Suzanne continues to collaborate with artists.