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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Tunirrusiangit: Inuit artists sharing their gifts

Our identity as Filipinos who grew up on the islands is the bright, distinguishing thread through the creative life of wonder | wander | women - our blogs, our writing, and our art. Ethnicity is not something learned.

We learned to speak English, we learned the Catholic traditions and our history as colonials. We learned how to speak and read Filipino, but Filipino is who we are; that's why we sympathise so much with other indigenous artists of colonised countries.

From the AGO exhibition