A small Indian minority community with a fascinating history, Anglo-Indians have been settling in Aotearoa New Zealand since the early colonial days and have a unique blended cultural heritage, including food, dialect and origin stories.
Yet Anglo-Indians are near to invisible in public life, often silent due to a double discrimination they have faced - they sit between the coloniser and the colonised.
Ōtepoti Dunedin based artist and muralist Guy Howard-Smith is setting out to change this. The son of an Anglo-Indian father migrant, in late 2023 he undertook a residency in India with Asia New Zealand Foundation support to explore his Anglo-Indian culture.
The result of two years of research is an exhibition at Corban Estate Arts Centre in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. The works have been also inspired by the famed Amar Chitra Katha comic series he was exposed to while in India.
Exhibition Big Seas, Small Waves is on show until April 5.
