Te Pūtahitanga ō Rehua is Paterson’s first digital animation. It follows on from the site specific installation he made on the ground at Riccarton House for the 2003 SCAPE Art and Industry Biennial in Christchurch, which honours the intrepid journey taken by Ngai Tahu to collect the precious resource of pounamu in the area of Lake Wakatipu.
For the Tauranga Art Gallery Paterson will present this work on a large scale, projected onto a wall that animates the space in a fluctuation of optical forms that reflect on how perception is a continual process of reconfiguring and re ordering what we see and what can be seen.
(Christina Burton, Adam Art Gallery)