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Artist Mahiriki Tangaroa introduces her exhibition "In a Perfect World', Bergman Gallery, October 2020.
Mahiriki Tangaroa – Essay by Arthur Buerms.
Mahiriki Tangaroa - Deforms Our Senses And Informs Our Mind. “ If we look at the myths, legends and oral traditions and at the cosmologies of the people of Oceania, it becomes evident that they did not conceive of their world in microscopic proportions ...
Andy Leleisi’uao – Essay by Arthur Buerms.
Andy Leleisi’uao’s Diasporic Pulse of Faith & Patience, A Puzzling Visionary Tale. An essay, written by a Papa’a (European) who knows neither Aoteroa nor Pacific art nor Samoan Va, must be treated with care. Nevertheless, in all abstraction, it can ...
Andy Leleisi’uao, Mangere Aroha, Rarotonga, 2018
https://vimeo.com/499827388 New Zealand Prime Minister and Minister of Arts & Heritage, Rt. Hon. Jacinda Ardern introduces Andy Leleisi'uao's large scale installation Mangere Aroha at Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, March, 2018.
Tungane Broadbent & Reuben Paterson – Today, Tomorrow & Yesterday.
Tivaivai/Paintings / July 4 – August 31, 2017 Three brief but beautiful days and one fabulous exhibition. My trip to the island of Rarotonga, the main island in the Cook Islands, was uncomfortably sandwiched between auction commitments. I had to consid ...
Fabric and Glitter, by Rachel Smith
There are definite challenges to working with glitter. Artist Reuben Paterson has long since accepted that the minute shiny particles will be found everywhere in his New Zealand studio. Like the product he works with, Paterson’s career is a glittering one ...
Art by the Lagoon, artist Ian George interviewed in Rarotonga, 2012
https://vimeo.com/501278245 Art by the Lagoon was an Art Studio project in collaboration with Creative New Zealand, delivered in Rarotonga, 2012. The installation featured performance, paintings and sculpture by Cook Islands artists and New Zealand/Pac ...
HYPER-DECENTRALISATION AND THE DISSOLUTION OF ART FRAMEWORKS IN THE PACIFIC, MARK CROSS.
The only way that art can be exorcised from the constraints of the frame is to reduce the importance of those ultimate of art frameworks the institutions. In saying this I should qualify that there is an obvious benefit of having these institutions exist ...
Waiting for the Clouds to Clear: The Art of Mahiriki Tangaroa by Jacqui Durrant
On 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 there is much that lies beneath. The most striking thing about Cook Islands artist Mahiriki Tanga ...
Old Gods, New Lives: Exhibiting Traditional Cook Islander Art by Jacqui Durrant
10th Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. In late 2008, the National Gallery of Australia established its first Pacific Arts department, marking what director Ron Radford has described as the 'renaissance' or 'renewal' of ...