Selected Exhibitions
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Lanu Mamanu, Tauranga Art Gallery, Aotearoa, New Zealand, 2025-2026
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Ana Lilo, 2025, commissioned work, installation - 3D printed sculpture in wood substrate & digital print textile
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SCAPE Public Art, Christchurch, New Zealand , 2025-26
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O le Sami Po Uliuli II, 2025, commissioned work, public sculpture, stainless steel powder coated
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Interlaced, Len Lye/Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2024-25
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O le Sami Po Uliuli, 2024, commissioned work, digital print textile installation
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Unweaving the Binary Code - Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, 2022
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Lepo, 2017, painting, acrylic paint on canvas
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Koloa: Fafine, 'Aati, Mo e Tekinolosia Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand, 2022
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Aniva, 2020, installation - sand & black card
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Wansolwara - 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney Arts Festival, Australia, 2020
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Manamea ma Anivanuanua, 2020, commissioned work, installation, sand & black card, 5940x2520mm
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Koloa: Women Art & Technology, Para-Site Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019
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Aniva II , 2019, commissioned work, installation - sand & black card > Untitled, 2019, installation, sand
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Aniva - Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand, 2019 (solo show)
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Aniva, 2019, installation, sand & black card (series of 60 works 210.mm x 297mm each)
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A Maternal Lens - Casablanca Biennale, Morocco, 2018
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Mea Ila Ila, 2018, commissioned work, intallation - sand & biodegradable glitter, fishing wire, plastic water bottles, plant leaves
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Tino Talk - Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand, 2018 (solo show)
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@Serval.Fandango - Illustrator/Tattooist >>>2018, archival pigment print 118.9 x 77.5 cm
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Poutasi W.B. Urale - PhD Candidate Visual Neuroscience <<>> 2018, archival pigment print 118.9 x 77.5 cm
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Poutasi W.B. Urale, 2018, archival pigment print 59.4 x 42.0 cm
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Matavai Taulangau - Artist >> << 2018, archival pigment print 118.9 x 77.5 cm
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Matavai Taulangau, 2018 archival pigment print 59.4 x 42.0 cm
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Typeface: Enjoy - Installation & tattoo collaboration with Tuigamala Andy Tauafiafi, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2018 (solo show)
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Typeface: Enjoy, 2018, commissioned work, installation - wall vinyl installation & tattoo artwork
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Tatala - Sanderson Contemporary - Installation & tattoo session with Julia Mage'au Gray, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand, 2017 (solo show)
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Julia & Vasa Mage'au Gray - opening night tattoo session
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Mauga, 2017. painting, acrylic on canvas 620mm x 440mm
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Poutasi, 2017, acrylic on canvas 1200mm x 1600mm
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U'u Lima, 2017, acrylic on canvas 620mm x 440mm
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Tattoo by Julia Mage'au Gray
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Anivanuanua, 2017, acrylic on canvas 1400mm x 2500mm
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Typeface Live Tattoo collaboration with Penni Grigg & Mural, CoCA, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2017
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Typeface Live Tattoo collaboration with Penni Grigg, performance installation, 10 x volunteers, & mural project
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Embed - Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand, 2016, (solo show) - featuring an activation by Tufala Meri
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Arial 24, less than, backslash, greater than, less than, forward slash, 2016, ceramic - jet black glaze & gold decal, edition of 5, 200mm x 50mm
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Arial 45, 40, 35, 30, 25, 20,15, less than, backslash, greater than, 2016, unique screenprint, Morabu gold ink, Fabriano Artistico 300gsm 1189mm x 841mm
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(R) Arial 6, 16, 26, 36, 46, 56, 66, less than, backslash, greater than, 2016, unique screenprint Morabu gold ink, Fabriano Artistico 300gsm 1189mm x 841mm
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Typeface Live Tattoo tattoo collaboration with Chris Amosa, CAIN Tattoo Studio, Whau Arts Festival, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand, 2015
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Mata Mata - Interactive new media exhibition by Rangituhia Hollis & Vaimaila Urale, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2012-13 (Collaborative Exhibition)
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Selected Publications
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Galang 01 - The galang collective convenes regularly to discuss the role of museums and other cultural institutions in the past and present colonisation of First Nations people. This title brings together transcripts of the collective’s powerful and moving conversations with individual members’ contributions. Artists featured include Brook Garru Andrew, Léuli Eshrãghi, Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Lisa Hilli, Biung Ismahasan, Gail Mabo and Mayunkiki. 224 pages, 30 x 24 cm, hardcover, Powerhouse Publishing and Garru Editions.
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The powerful and dynamic legacy of Pacific arts in Aotearoa, as told by the artists themselves. Pacific Arts Aotearoa tells the dynamic and powerful story of Pacific arts in Aotearoa New Zealand. This comprehensive account spans six decades of multidisciplinary Pacific creative genius, remembering the diverse, fresh and energetic contributions of Pacific artists to New Zealand, Oceania and the world. Edited by leading Pacific writer and scholar Lana Lopesi, this book includes over 300 images and contributions from more than 120 artists, curators and community voices, providing new and previously unheard perspectives on this vast and growing legacy, in one volume. Published in association with Pacific Arts, Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa as part of the Pacific Arts Legacy Project, an initiative under the Pacific Arts Strategy.
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Vaimaila Urale
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Moana Fresh
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Interlaced: Animation & textiles - Author: Alla Gadassik Publisher: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre Interlaced: Animation and Textiles explores the layered relationship between these two artforms. This lavishly illustrated book covers more than a century of media art, from early cinema experiments to contemporary algorithmically generated images. Braiding together analogue and digital media, Interlaced explores the enduring capacity of textile forms to make visible animating forces and to reanimate intergenerational memory. Published on the occasion of the groundbreaking exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, the book features the work of twenty-four artists who embroider with projected light, quilt celluloid films and weave digital tapestries.
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Sāmoan Made Simple by Jason Tiatia
Book cover artwork by Vaimaila Urale
A mainstream, accessible guide to learning the Samoan language, for everyone.
Fun, user-friendly and designed for modern readers, Jason Tiatia's Sāmoan Made Simple is a first-of-its-kind resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Sāmoan Language. Based on the best-selling Māori Made Easy formula, Sāmoan Made Simple empowers readers to take control of their learning in short, buildable exercises that are applicable to everyday situations..
This resource is broken down into easily managed units, including:
* The alphabet
* Pronunciation
* Greetings
* Family
* Meals and bedtime
* School
* Sports
* Asking questions
* Basic phrases
* Descriptions
* And much more!