Salote Tawale lives and works on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, Sydney, Australia. Working across performance, moving image, painting, photography, and installation, Tawale explores the identity of the individual within collective systems, society, and communities. Works are contingent on her own body and experiences to present nuanced articulations of the complex negotiations of living in the diaspora as a Fijian woman of Anglo heritage in Australia. Recent works expand upon these concerns and the significance of indigenous methodologies as a form of decolonial practice.

Tawale is a lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney.