Irami Buli

  • Irami Buli
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Painter, Sculptor / carver
Principal country concerned : Column : Arts and crafts

Irami Buli is a Fijian artist who first began drawing in 1990 as a 13 year old. He drew inspiration from comic art and worked with charcoals. Now a days Irami paints and writes and has danced and played instruments for the Oceania Dance Theater and Vou. 
His first break came in 2000 when he attended a workshop run by the Red Wave Collective, at the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture (now called Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture and Pacific Studies) at The University of the South Pacific. After a decade with Red Wave and exhibiting with the collective, Irami now has his own studio space in Suva.
He has collaborated with artists from New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Australia and has exhibited in Fiji, French Polynesia, India, Indonesia, United States, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2008 Irami spent three months working with local artists in Bali under an Indonesian Government sponsorship.
He has received numerous awards – in 2006 he represented Fiji at the World Inter-Continent Arts Initiative in India and won the First Prize in the Public Choice Awards at the Ashoka Gallery in New Delhi. That year he also received a Highly Commended Art award and Okanui Cultural Art Awards  at the National Fine Art Expo in Fiji and in 2008 received the Indigenous Art Awards and the Highly Commended Work at the Fiji National Fine Arts Exhibition.

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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