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Aotearoa Art Fair, a celebration of Pacific Art
Rachel Smith November 25, 2022There’s a particular moment when a decision is made to purchase a piece of art. It can begin with a glance, a connection between the...Read more -
What was written in the Stars
Ben Bergman April 22, 2022For thousands of years, in great patterns of migratory movement, the ancestors of the Polynesians peopled the islands of Oceania. In epic feats of celestial...Read more -
Navigating between worlds: Mahiriki Tangaroa’s Kaveinga - Angels of the Ocean
Francis McWhannell April 22, 2022Oceania denotes a sea of islands with their inhabitants. The world of our ancestors was a large sea full of places to explore, to make...Read more -
Auckland Art Fair in a time of COVID
Rachel Smith March 1, 2021Wednesday 17 February, exactly a week before the opening of the Auckland Art Fair, and all eyes were on the latest COVID news in New...Read more
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A Journey of Modern Pacific Art
Rachel Smith February 24, 2021The logistics of taking part in an international art fair when you are an art gallery based on a small island in the Pacific is...Read more -
Contemporary Art In The South Pacific, Bergman Gallery & The New Frontier
Rachel Smith January 15, 2020For two centuries, European anthropological mischaracterizations have dominated perceptions of the broader Pacific region. Of more recent times, there has been new Pacific cultural awakening,...Read more -
Mahiriki Tangaroa - Deforms Our Senses And Informs Our Mind
Arthur Buerms December 2, 2019' If we look at the myths, legends and oral traditions and at the cosmologies of the people of Oceania, it becomes evident that they...Read more -
MPA – What’s In A Name?
Rachel Smith November 1, 2018What is modern Pacific art? It’s the past and the future, a collective of people, ideas and approaches. It is a celebration of Pacific Art...Read more
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Old Gods, New Lives - Exhibiting Traditional Cook Islands Art
Jacqui Durant July 26, 201010th Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. In late 2008, the National Gallery of Australia established its first Pacific Arts department, marking...Read more -
The Danger of a Single Story
Yazmany Arboleda April 28, 2010I borrow this title from Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, who insightfully asserted that hearing only one story about a people or nation leads to ignorance....Read more -
Waiting for the Clouds to Clear, the art of Mahiriki Tangaroa
Jacqui Durrant March 2, 2009On the surface, Mahiriki Tangaroa’s paintings Waiting for the Clouds to clear and Language of Another suggest the vibrancy of Pacific island life, and yet...Read more -
Scriptures from the West
Ben Bergman August 30, 2007Scriptures from the West, an exhibition by Mahiriki Tangaroa and Andy Leleisi’uao, BCA Gallery, Rarotonga, 2007. Introduction: I reckon that parameters to definition are lacking...Read more
