Two Indigenous Women and Their Creative Practice Doctoral Journeys
Keywords:
Indigenous creative practice PhD, Māori literature, Rotuman ancestral knowledge, toi Māori, Māori art, creative writing, Indigenous poetry, digital artAbstract
This article showcases the creative work and haerenga/sal fạiva (journey/creative journey) of two writer-scholar-artist creative-practice doctoral candidates—Marama Salsano and Mere Taito—who recently completed international arts residencies in Canada and Melbourne, respectively. Specifically, Marama Salsano contemplates Indigenous generosity and resistance through poetry and reflections about the creation of her LandBack fabric banner at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, and Mere Taito presents digitally authored visual poems that were inspired by the in-person, residential gathering of her Creative New Zealand/Creative Australia digital arts fellowship in Melbourne. Ultimately, the authors of this paper draw strength from their Pacific roots and ever-widening Indigenous spaces, which allow their creative doctoral research to flourish.
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