John Pule’s upcoming exhibition The Great World (fonua galo) explores and represents the history of his native Niue. Pule studied the Paleo-Archaeology of Niue as well as folklore in the lesser-known but still acknowledged belief of the ancestral homeland of Niueans, Fonua Galo. Fonua Galo can be translated to mean ‘unknown or forgotten land’ and various historians have pin-pointed it’s former location as being near either Samoa or Tonga, the concept holding similar mythic origins as Hawaiki…
