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Australia exhibit to feature work of Saipan-born artist
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Posted on Feb 07 2012
Pohnpeian-Saipanese artist Yvonne C. Neth will have six of her large charcoal works exhibited as part of Maketi Ples, a selling exhibition of Pacific Islands-based fine art, showing at Global Gallery in Sydney, Australia, from Feb. 22 to March 11, 2012.
The annual exhibition, which is being billed the creative art keystone event of 2012, accepts work from artists living and working in 14 Pacific Island nations: the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Niue.
Maketi Ples 2012 will be held at Global Gallery, 5 Comber Street, Paddington, NSW, Australia.
Neth, who is a licensed pilot and the safety inspector for FSM’s Division of Civil Aviation, was personally invited to exhibit by the event organizers after they saw examples of her work online. She will be the first artist from the Micronesian region to participate.
Neth, who is a self-taught artist working primarily with charcoal, graphite, ink, and pastel, grew up both on Saipan and Pohnpei and earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from University of Hawaii at Manoa. She moved back to Pohnpei in 2009. [B][I](PR)[/I][/B]
