Title

Kastom: Art of Vanuatu.

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (8 February 2013 – 16 June 2013)

Date

(2013)

Countries of context

Australia | Vanuatu

Abstract

Vanuatu is very different from other Pacific nations. Traditional practices better known as Kastom remain strong even after a century of dual colonial religious influences. Kastom: Art of Vanuatu presents for the first time the unique collection of arts from this area held by the National Gallery of Australia. In the early 1970s the Gallery contracted an agent to field collect in Vanuatu resulting in the acquisition of nearly two hundred works, a selection of which will be accompanied by other important works from the NGA's Vanuatu collection. [Gallery publicity].