Contemporary Australian South Sea Islander artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby examines Australia’s dark history of plantation colonisation through a range of techniques, from photography and filmmaking to sculpture. Hom Swit Hom invites us to consider the history and contemporary legacy of blackbirding from the viewpoint of the people whose identity is intrinsically connected to this narrative.

Born in Murwillumbah in 1982, JasmineTogo-Brisby is a fourth-generation Australian
South Sea Islander of Ni-Vanuatu ancestry. She is a Townsville and Brisbane-raised artist living and working in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She began her visual arts degree at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, with works exhibited in Melbourne and several Queensland locations.

An Artspace Mackay exhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition ‘Jasmine Togo-Brisby: Hom Swit Hom’ held 28 January to 27 March 2022.

40 pages
paperback, colour illustrations