Loan (Exhibition)
Display in 'Oceania: Imagining the Pacific' Exhibition. August - November 2011.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Professor Dame Marilyn Stathern, William Wyseman Professor of Anthropology, 1993- 2008, Cambridge University, who conducted fieldwork in the PNG Highlands and in Port Moresby from the 1960s onward. Displayed in the donor’s rooms at Girton College.
(Bio) Tiabe was from the Southern Highlands, but met Georgina Bier when she ran art workshops at the Laloki Mental Home, Port Moresby, 1967-8. This produced PNG's first "outsider" artists, including Tiabe, Kupialdo, Sukoro, Hape and Mathias, whose artwporks were shown at the university library in 1968. Some of his works such as ‘Accident’ distrust of Western technology.

Event Date 21/4/2009
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Screen-print by Tiabe titled ‘Mota Bagarup proof’, dated September 1968. Inscribed in pencil'Mota Baggerup proof Tiabe Sep 1968'. Condition: Good, but yellowing with creases and wear to edges. Creases in image, with sticky tape marks on rear.
Event Date 21/4/2009
Author: maa