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Kō atu I Te Ikaroa / Beyond the Milky Way
Dina Jezdi September 30, 2024Since the late 1990s, Reuben Paterson has emerged as an artist of remarkable curiosity and depth, using glitter to illuminate the probing frontiers of our...Read more -
Reuben Paterson, All These Precious Things
Rachel Smith April 4, 2023Thirty years of creating; it is a lifetime of work for artist Reuben Paterson. “I think about my practice as having a life - I’ve...Read more -
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 -
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
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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 -
Fabric and Glitter
Rachel Smith July 17, 2017There are definite challenges to working with glitter. Artist Reuben Paterson has long since accepted that the minute shiny particles will be found everywhere in...Read more -
Kaleidoscope Culture: The Glitter-amas of Reuben Patterson
Ben Bergman December 13, 2010In 2003, the outrageous nature of Reuben Paterson’s untitled Gow Langsford exhibition leapt off the wall and smacked me in the face. Provocatively titled canvases...Read more
