Born 1973, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

In Heels 2014 Angela Tiatia uses her own body to confront the stereotypes placed on the Pacific female body. Wearing heels and a body suit, and revealing her Samoan familial tattoo on her upper thigh, she enacts an endurance exercise that also repeats the specific movement a dancer adopts in Siva Samoa. In Edging and seaming 2013 she juxtaposes the repeated actions of workers in a sewing factory in Guangzhou with those of her mother Lusi Tiatia undertaking similar labour in Auckland. Lusi's grandmother was a Chinese immigrant to Samoa, and Lusi herself was part of a generation of Pacific peoples who were encouraged to migrate to New Zealand in the 1950s and 60s to bolster a growing economy. Tiatia's video shows her mother completing a final order before the company she works for outsources the labour, highlighting the ramifications of globalisation for local communities.

Angela Tiatia has also worked with the QAGOMA Children's Art Centre to develop a project for APT8 Kids.