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Tunmise Adebowale

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writer

Tunmise Adebowale is a Nigerian-born New Zealander currently studying at the University of Otago. She's the winner of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student competition in the Year 13 category, and the 2023 Sargeson Short Story Award for the Secondary Schools Division. Her work has been published in Turbine-Kapohau, Newsroom, NZ Poetry Shelf and Verb Wellington. She was also featured in Theatrefolk's 2021 collection: BIPOC Voices and Perspectives Monologue. You can find her on Substack: https://oizystunmise.substack.com/

Everything By: Tunmise Adebowale

Art25.03.24

Looking at Things as a Whole

Tunmise Adebowale finds warmth and unexpected connections between wooden carvings of twins from her Yoruba whakapapa, and Ōtepoti-artist Kate Fitzharris’ works at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

By Tunmise Adebowale
Read Time: 9m

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