Jasmine Togo-Brisby (1982) is a Wellington based multi-disciplinary artist from Queensland, Australia. She is a fourth generation Australian South Sea Islander with ancestral lineage to the islands of Ambae and Santo, Vanuatu.
South Sea Islanders are the Australian born descendants of the Pacific Islanders sent to Australia as a result of slave labour policies employed by the Australian government between 1863 and 1904.
Her research examines the historical practice of ‘blackbirding’, the romanticised colloquialism for the Pacific slave trade, and the contemporary legacy that this practice has imparted on those who trace their roots to New Zealand and Australia through the slave-diaspora.
