Dark seas and glass walls – feeling injustice at the museum

The artist Rosanna Raymond is a curator, performer, artist, and lecturer and was a member of the UK-based Polynesian community until she returned to Auckland in 2014. Rosanna is a New Zealand-born Pacific Islander of Samoan descent. Rosanna is also a published poet, writer and founding member of the SaVAge K’lub, with art works held in museum and private collections around the world. Rosanna has forged a role for herself over the past 20 years as a producer and commentator on contemporary Pacific Island culture in Aotearoa New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the USA, fusing traditional practices with modern innovations and techniques and specialising in work within museums and higher education institutions as an artist, performer, curator, guest speaker, poet and workshop leader. She has had solo exhibitions and made contributions to international collections over this time. ¹