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John Pule (John Puhiatau Pule) was born on 13 April, 1962 in Liku, Niue, is a Niuean artist and writer (born 1962). Discover John Pule's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

Popular As John Puhiatau Pule
Occupation Artist, novelist and poet
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 13 April, 1962
Birthday 13 April
Birthplace Liku, Niue
Nationality Niue

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1962

John Puhiatau Pule (born 18 April 1962) is a Niuean artist, novelist and poet.

The Queensland Art Gallery describes him as "one of the Pacific's most significant artists".

Pule was born on 13 April 1962 in Liku, Niue, and arrived in New Zealand in 1964.

He was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland.

Describing the beginning of his literary career, Pule explained:

He also described his writing as a means of "decolonizing his mind".

His work expresses his experience as a Niuean in New Zealand:

1982

His published poetry includes Sonnets to Van Gogh and Providence (1982), Flowers after the Sun (1984) and The Bond of Time: An Epic Love Poem (1985, 2nd ed. 1998, 3rd ed. 2014).

1991

Since 1991 Pule has exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand, Australia, Europe, the USA, the Pacific and Asia.

1992

Pule's first novel, The Shark that Ate the Sun (Ko E Mago Ne Kai E La), was published in 1992.

1996

From 1996 to present he has held solo exhibitions in New Zealand, and in Melbourne Australia at the Karen Woodbury Gallery.

2000

Burn My Head in Heaven (Tugi e ulu haaku he langi) followed in 2000, and Restless people (Tagata kapakiloi) in 2004.

In 2000 Pule was the University of Auckland Literary Fellow and in 2002 took up a distinguished visiting writer's residency in the department of English at the University of Hawaiʻi.

2002

Pule was a guest professor of creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi in the spring of 2002.

2005

In 2005 he was awarded an art residency at Roemerapotheke, Basel, Switzerland and in 2004 he was honoured with the prestigious Laureate Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.

In 2005, he co-wrote Hiapo: Past and present in Niuean barkcloth, a study of a traditional Niuean artform, with Australian writer and anthropologist Nicholas Thomas.

In 2005 he exhibited at the Galerie Romerapotheke in Zurich.

2006

Pule's work has been represented in three Asia-Pacific Triennials at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (2006, 2002, 1996), and his painting Tukulagi tukumuitea (Forever and ever) (2005) was illustrated on the front cover of the 2006 exhibition catalogue.

2007

Other selected group exhibitions include Amanakiaga, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2007); Turbulence, the 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (2007); Paradise Now!, Asia Society Museum, New York (2004); South Pacific Arts Festival, Belau (2004), New Caledonia (2000), and Samoa (1996); Iki and thanks for all the Ika, Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2003); People Get Ready, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, (2000); Wake Naima, Creating Together, Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa (1998); Kwangju Biennale, Korea (1995); Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (1995); Bottled Ocean, New Zealand touring exhibition (1994); Te Moemoea no Iotefa, curated by Rangihiroa Panaho for the Sarjeant Art Gallery in 1990.

2010

Hauaga (Arrivals) was a show of Pule's art organised by City Gallery Wellington in 2010, which toured other galleries around New Zealand, including Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland.

Pule's work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; Chartwell Trust Collection, Auckland; Wellington High Court, Wellington; and the National Museum of Scotland, Scotland.

2012

In the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours, Pule was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services as an author, poet and painter.

2013

He was awarded the Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing at the University of Canterbury in 2013.

2020

Poetry by Pule was included in UPU, a curation of Pacific Island writers' work which was first presented at the Silo Theatre as part of the Auckland Arts Festival in March 2020.

UPU was remounted as part of the Kia Mau Festival in Wellington in June 2021.

Pule's artwork includes painting, drawing, printmaking, film-making and performance.

The topics of his work include Niuean cosmology and Christianity, as well as perspectives on migration and colonialism.

His work comprises both painting on canvas and bark cloth painting, a traditional Polynesian artform.