Pacific Contemporary Artist Award winner Benjamin Work

Tongan and Scottish artist Benjamin Work talks about his Pacific Contemporary Artist Award, presented at the 30th Arts Pasifika Awards in Tamaki Makaurau, which hosted the ceremony for the first time. His Sydney Biennale work uses 30 metal forms based on a Tongan dance paddle, with whalebone inlay. It is linked to an 1863 whaling voyage, when a captain took pacific people and sold them into the Peru slave trade. Benjamin traces the story back to a family question about his great-grandfather's green eyes. He also talks about his first visit to the Venice Biennale.