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Pataka Museum
Cnr Norrie and Parumoana St, Porirua
Porirua City
Phone: +64 (0)4 237 1511
Free entry
PATAKA is the cultural heart of Porirua City. Dedicated to celebrating our heritage and showcasing the very best in contemporary Maori, Pacific Island and New Zealand art.
At Pataka you’ll see work from leading local, national and international artists with a fantastic range of heritage and social history exhibitions. All housed under one roof, with the Porirua City Library, Melody Farm Music Museum, a traditional Japanese garden and Cafe Kaizen, a cultural oasis in Porirua City. An easy train ride from Wellington.
Always innovative and interesting, Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures has three great shows for the Outgames.
She Beauty, He Beast - Glitter paintings by Reuben Paterson
Pataka Main Gallery, 12 Feb-15 May 2011
Reuben Paterson - Table For Two Reuben Paterson - Nigger
These exquisitely detailed and technical glitter paintings are a kind of signature for Reuben Paterson, and while he also creates video and large-scale installations, this exhibition is devoted to a new series of paintings referencing New Zealand's provocation, or 'gay panic', legal debate. Repeal of the relevant section of the Crimes Act was enacted in November 2009, in the wake of a particularly brutal, but heterosexually underscored, murder.
His previous work typically draws on sources from his own background; retro fabrics, Māori culture, Op art and high modernism. With She Beauty, He Beast, he pairs his more familiar stylised works with glitter paintings of predatory big cats and the prey of a gigantic pink budgie made from colours specially commissioned for this work. A black panther caught in mid-snarl and rendered in bruising shades of midnight blue and black is entitled Nigger (2009/10). Paterson is of Māori descent and the racial slur is a knowing and powerful appropriation. His statement for the exhibition quotes gender studies academic Dr. Alison Laurie, when she said "in the same way that we have an underlying culture of racism, there is also an underlying culture of homophobia."
By cloaking his protest vote in a fairy tale, and prompting us to look beyond surface appearances and prejudices, Paterson makes a nuanced but loaded attack on the inequality of the current Provocation law. Paterson does it all without sounding preachy, and with a sense of tact that preserves respect for the male and female victims of this injustice - Hanna Scott
For more information about this artist, visit his website.
SHout - Out and About in Porirua
Bottle Creek Gallery, 3-20 March 2011
A group show of local artists in the Bottle Creek Gallery, Pataka's Community Gallery, includes work by: Mark Ayson, Jeavons Bailey, Kaz Bartsch, Ros Bignell, Adi Brown, Clyde Clemett, Fergus Collinson, Julie Midgley, Neke Moa, Spring Rees, David Roil, Cathy Tracey, Eve Tregurthen and Jack Trolove.
Untitled (Mona) by Adi Brown Text at Otaki by Fergus Collinson
New Works, a solo show by Paerau Corneal
Blue Pacific Gallery, 26 Feb-27 March 2011
Two constants in my work are sculptural works in clay and more structural forms in fibre.
Ongoing themes involve te uha, the female element - and consequently mana wahine - and more relevant depictions of Maori women today. Paerau Corneal
Paerau Corneal - Ko Au Te Whenua
Photography, Norman Heke
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Late but not straight at Pataka Pataka Museum, Norrie St, Porirua We will be open late, but it's not going to be a straight night at Pataka. Drag kings and queens, lesbian acapella, same sex dancing demos, music and performance will be happening. Galleries open 4.30pm with nibbles and refreshments at 5.30pm, our show kicks off at 6.30pm. The fabulous Café Kaizen will be open for drinks, food and other delights. |
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