Press Release – Auckland Art Gallery
Made from hundreds of shimmering crystals, a 10-metre-high waka by artist Reuben Paterson will be revealed at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on Thursday 17 June.
Image credit: Reuben Paterson at his studio, 2021. Photo: Jennifer French
Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery and Edmiston Trust, Reuben Paterson has created the major new sculpture that will rise vertically out of the Gallery’s forecourt pool.
Paterson (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) says the sculpture, made of 611 iridescent crystals, navigates a spectacular journey from Papatūānuku into the embrace of Ranginui and will cast a galaxy of stars over the pool.
Image credit: Reuben
Paterson at his studio, 2021. Photo: Jennifer
French
Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery and
Edmiston Trust, Reuben Paterson has created the major new
sculpture that will rise vertically out of the Gallery’s
forecourt pool.
Paterson (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi
Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) says the sculpture, made of 611
iridescent crystals, navigates a spectacular journey from
Papatūānuku into the embrace of Ranginui and will cast a
galaxy of stars over the pool.
‘As the crystals
illuminate the Gallery in rainbow refractions, the waka
appears to venture skyward, seemingly levitating above the
forecourt pool,’ says Paterson.
Paterson says his
Press Release – Auckland Art Gallery Made from hundreds of shimmering crystals, a 10-metre-high waka by artist Reuben Paterson will be revealed at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tmaki on Thursday 17 June.
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