"Vau koka" or making dye to decorate tapa cloths

1954

Child

Sandwith, Noelle Ora. Wide-eyed in Tonga: a south seas odyssey. MS 94/43.
PA 36 (1-6); PB 40; PC 51 (1-23); PD 165 (1-6)

Charcoal

Sketch/Art/08 Communication Artifacts/Chenhall Nomenclature

Noelle Sandwith
"Junglewood'
17 Addison Road
Wanstead, London
England

Noelle Sandwith trained at the Kingston-upon-Thames Art School (1944-45), Croydon Art School (1946) and Heatherley Art School (1947-48). In 1950 she accompanied her uncle to Tonga where she taught and travelled. Following a sketching holiday in the outbacks of Australia, she returned to Tonga in 1953, living with a Tongan family, sketching and recording the islands' social life and customs before returning to England in 1954 to train as a nurse. Her work on the Tongan Islands has received international press coverage.
The numbering sequence in the series field follows Noelle Sandwith's list included with the text of the manuscript.
Exhibited: 1956 & 1958 in group shows at the Royal Society of British Artists; 1960 invited to exhibit at Foyles Art Gallery 'Coolibahs to Coconuts'; 1961 London Society of Women Artists; 1962 & 1965 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions; 1969 Brighton Art Gallery; 1970 London Society of Women Artists; 1996 The Heatherly School of Fine Art 150 year Anniversary Exhibition; 2005 National Museum of Australia 'In search of the Birdsville Track'.
Represented in collections at: The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, UK; The Starr Foundation, Albion, Michigan, USA; The Museum of Mankind, London, UK; The National Museum of Australia, Canberra; The Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand; The Royal Free Archives, London, UK.

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Noelle Sandwith. 1993.

06 Dec 2022