Benjamin Work
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title:
Benjamin Work
text:
Benjamin Work is an artist from New Zealand with Tongan and Scottish heritage. He is well known for his murals across New Zealand, as well as his paintings inspired by his genealogy back to Tonga. Drawing on his Tongan heritage, Work began to explore new directions in his art over the last decade. Inspired by the iconography found on Tongan treasures such as ngatu, fala, and 'akau tau, his refined, graphic paintings aimed to find new spaces and ways for audiences to engage with Tonga's visual cu
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New Zealand artist of Tongan descent.
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Work
date created:
2023-07-07T22:40:06Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T03:13:36Z
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