Two new Pātaka exhibitions
Local award-winning painter’s exhibition
Northbound, 2017 (detail)
Award-winning Pukerua Bay artist Kerry Jane Scott presents her first solo exhibition of paintings in Pātaka’s Toi
Gallery this April. Although best known locally for her large-scale mosaic artworks such as Te Ra Nui roundabout
sculpture and Plimmerton’s mosaic wave seats, Kerry is also an award-winning painter. The paintings in her upcoming
exhibition My Back Yard evolved from her research she did while developing her mosaic public artworks around the region and are inspired by the
vibrancy of humans and natural wildlife coexisting.
My Back Yard runs until 4 June in the Toi Gallery at Pātaka.
Digital artist showcases work
Porirua digital artist Gus Hunter’s compositional design exhibition Visualising Imaginations takes the viewer on a journey to other worlds and environments. His work explores Aotearoa and wider South Pacific
narratives, dynamic conflicts between humanity and beast and battles between good versus evil. Gus is a senior concept
designer at Weta Workshop and his illustrations and paintings helped bring many of Peter Jackson’s films to life. The
exhibition is his personal artwork.
Visualising Imaginations is open now and runs until 7 May in the Bottle Creek Gallery at Pātaka.