This trip was a rare opportunity for Curator Contemporary Art Nina Tonga, author Jill Trevelyan and Manager Collection Imaging Michael O’Neill to document the artists at work.

Over the course of a week, the team gained insight into the artist’s creative process and witnessed the careful and repetitive application of draudrau (stencils) on the masi gradually building the image of an empty living room. The room was partly inspired by the living room where the work was made with the artists replicating details such as the neighbouring sugarcane plantation and the tiled pattern of the lino flooring.

“When you create something the space in which you make it becomes very special. It's almost like the room remembers you. You go back into that room and you feel at home again because it's a place of creativity, a place of laughter, a place of working together.”

— Robin White, 2019

You can view the artwork That Vase as part of the 2022 exhibition Robin White: Something Is Happening Here, and you can also watch this film on a big screen in an immersive space.