Amanda Tomasoa

Amanda Tomasoa has gone through enough in life to know how it feels to be repressed and the euphoria of being set free. Having been through battle torn worlds, near death experiences while living on a ship travelling for two years from Singapore, through to to New Zealand; she wants to shout to the world that despite the difficulty of life, we can all find the inner strength to carry on, and although there is a lot of ugliness among us, beauty can be found if we look hard enough.

Among her professional artist tools, Tomasoa enjoys using a humble piece of plastic scraper to add that extra dimension of paint to her art pieces. Beyond delivering delicate romantic works, she enjoys most those works that are born out of difficult challenges... like the years when road works were undertaken all over Auckland city and right in front of her home.

Bold in colours, rough and rugged in shapes, deliberately presented to resemble life, she embeds stories into the pieces... hidden figures of people living in the city, road signs depicting the speed limit, detours, frustrations, confusion, the respite and the beauty despite what life throws at us.

Colours burst forth blatantly fighting against the mundaneness that sometimes creeps in to our everyday lives. Tomasoa uses colours that brightens up a space to remind us life is to be lived. Stand up world... you need not be invisible!