Two Visual Art Features: Julie Kondi & Shee Gomes

For this art feature, we share the work of two artists offering vastly different aesthetic sensibilities and approaches to art-making.

Julie Kondi is a working artist from the Korafe-speaking people indigenous to Papua New Guinea. She grew up in the military as the daughter of a soldier who served in two different civil wars in two countries in the Pacific Islands region. The Vanuatu civil uprising in 1981 in Port Vila and the Bougainville civil war from 1988-1998. As an adult, Kondi w…