McLeavey Gallery

Loose ends

Christina Pataialii
30 Jul – 23 Aug 2025
Loose ends install view
Christina Pataialii
Loose ends install view
Christina Pataialii
Loose ends install view
Christina Pataialii
Loose ends install view
Christina Pataialii
Loose ends install view
Christina Pataialii
Loose ends install view
Christina Pataialii
Loose ends install view
Christina Pataialii

About the exhibition

This series revisits and reimagines unresolved gestures, frayed narratives, and unfinished thoughts - returning not to complete them, but to explore alternate pathways left open. Forms blur, lines dissolve, and figures waver between presence and collapse. Each painting holds a quiet tension: between clarity and distortion, memory and forgetting, persistence and undoing.



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This series revisits and reimagines unresolved gestures, frayed narratives, and unfinished thoughts - returning not to complete them, but to explore alternate pathways left open. Forms blur, lines dissolve, and figures waver between presence and collapse. Each painting holds a quiet tension: between clarity and distortion, memory and forgetting, persistence and undoing.

Rather than seeking resolution, Loose Ends moves in rhythms of interruption and return - asking what still holds shape when certainty falls away.

 

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Soft Hustle
Christina Pataialii, 2025
Acrylic and house paint on canvas, 1400 x 1500 mm
Morning in the Dry
Christina Pataialii, 2025
Acrylic and house paint on canvas, 1000 x 900 mm
The Backbeat
Christina Pataialii, 2025
Acrylic and house paint on drop cloth, 1125 x 1020 mm
The Arc
Christina Pataialii, 2025
Acrylic and house paint on drop cloth, 915 x 840 mm
Beat on the 1
Christina Pataialii, 2025
Acrylic and house paint on drop cloth, 915 x 840 mm
Off Cut
Christina Pataialii, 2025
Acrylic and house paint on drop cloth, 1125 x 1020 mm
Mid-Drift
Christina Pataialii, 2025
Acrylic and house paint on drop cloth, 760 x 760 mm
The Gist
Christina Pataialii, 2025
Acrylic and house paint on drop cloth, 760 x 760 mm

Artist

Christina Pataialii

Upcoming Exhibitions

Loose ends

Christina Pataialii,
30 Jul – 23 Aug 2025

A Homecoming: Two Major Works Return Home

Richard Killeen & Colin McCahon,
27 Aug – 27 Sep 2025

The white walls of Wainui: two major works

Bill Hammond,
1 Oct – 30 Oct 2025

to a shadows edge

Polly Gilroy,
1 Nov – 22 Nov 2025

New Work

Yvonne Todd,
26 Nov – 20 Dec 2025

Previous Exhibitions

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Chemistry imagery
Nicola Farquhar
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Areez Katki

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