Plastic, a solo exhibition by Czarina Wilson, March 19 - April 10, 2010

Plastic by Czarina Wilson
March 19 – April 10, 2010
Fresh Gallery Otara

Czarina Alisi Wilson is an award winning young designer with over ten years of experience creating boundary pushing garments for Westfield Style Pasifika, Villa Maria Cult-Couture and the Montana World of Wearable Arts competitions. Funky urban street style, matrimonial glamour and painstaking hand-made detail are what Czarina has become recognised for.

In her first solo exhibition, the focus is on the artist’s cultural foundations. Works examine the struggles of being hafekasi and negotiating acceptance from both Tongan and Pākehā communities. PLASTIC is a personal interpretation of “trying to hold on to what I can of what I describe myself as – not what others label you by – as ‘plastic’…palagi loi…fia palagi, and so on and so on.”

For more information, please visit the Fresh Gallery Otara website.