The annual Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards celebrates and recognises excellence in Pacific arts across a range of arts practices and career stages Tanu Gago (MNZM) is an award winning photographer, interdisciplinary artist, and filmmaker. He is a founding member of the Auckland vogue scene, as well as the co-founder and creative director of award-winning Queer Indigenous Arts Collective FAFSWAG.He is a 2020 Arts Foundation Arts Laureate, the 2014 Auckland Festival of Photography Annual Commission recipient, the 2018 Macmillan Brown artist in residence, and in 2019 was inducted into the Order of Merit, with Queen's honours for services to Pacific arts and the LGBTQIA+ community.  More recently he has been awarded the Creative NZ Arts Pasifika Contemporary Pacific Artist Award 2020 which recognizes an artist who has demonstrated innovation in their artform and work in a unique artform who continually push the boundaries of their practi

<p>The annual Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards celebrates and recognises excellence in Pacific arts across a range of arts practices and career stages Tanu Gago (MNZM) is an award winning photographer, interdisciplinary artist, and filmmaker. He is a founding member of the Auckland vogue scene, as well as the co-founder and creative director of award-winning Queer Indigenous Arts Collective FAFSWAG.He is a 2020 Arts Foundation Arts Laureate, the 2014 Auckland Festival of Photography Annual Commission recipient, the 2018 Macmillan Brown artist in residence, and in 2019 was inducted into the Order of Merit, with Queen's honours for services to Pacific arts and the LGBTQIA+ community.&nbsp;&nbsp;More recently he has been awarded the Creative NZ Arts Pasifika Contemporary Pacific Artist Award 2020 which recognizes an artist who has demonstrated innovation in their artform and work in a unique artform who continually push the boundaries of their practi</p>