Evangeline George

“Living biracial is something that makes me feel like an outsider/imposter in my own country and around my own people. It's something I can’t fix or change because it's in my blood. What made it especially difficult living as biracial, is that my parents are divorced so my two cultures/races feel very separate from one another. The best thing I can do is change my mindset and how I look at my own life. I like to find happiness in what I have and try to embrace both parts of my racial identity rather than running from it all. Through my art, I wanted to portray my inner self-conflict and the dilemmas that I have experienced as half Pakeha and Indian in New Zealand. Figuring out how I identify is a long and hard journey and there's always conflict which I've shown through the Tui’s (representing the Pakeha side of me) and the orange tigers (representing the Indian side)."