Torika was born to an Australian mother of Anglo-Celtic origin and an Indigenous Fijian father. Born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania, Torika moved to Melbourne, Victoria to study Media Arts at Deakin University in 1997.
After completing Honours in Media Arts at Deakin University in 2000 she went on to complete a Masters of Multimedia Design at Monash University. Her photographic and video work has been exhibited locally an overseas, including New York, San Francisco and Auckland.
Torika has published and presented at local and international conferences about the representation of mixed-race identity and her forthcoming chapter ‘Daughters of the Diaspora: Migrant Women and Hip-Hop’ includes interviews with local Melbourne hip-hop performers.
Torika has had a varied career, from bass player to not-for-profit, multimedia design, and is currently a full-time university lecturer at Deakin University, Melbourne and a PhD candidate at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) . Her current research titled “Expendable Flesh: Black Bodies and War” investigates the representation of the black body in war, and focuses on Fijian security workers in Iraq.
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