Cabinets of wonder

Postmortem Room #4, photograph by Neil Pardington

Wellington artist Neil Pardington talks to Virginia Were about his love of photographing spaces that are empty, yet redolent with strangeness, mystery and narrative.

Diamond dust and ancestral stories

Whakapapa: get down on your knees, glitter on canvas by Reuben Paterson

Whakapapa or genealogy has always been at the heart of Reuben Paterson’s practice, which dances with various influences—from the optical paintings of Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley to memories of the patterns on his grandmother’s dresses.