Musical paint

The soundtrack to Christina Pataialii’s formative years, spent in working-class West Auckland, came via Solid Gold radio and its hits of the 1950s to the 1970s but the music was very much from the other side of the Pacific, the United States. So maybe, that’s why Pataialii’s approach to painting is a little like DJing – sampling from historical and contemporary references, exuberant but sometimes restrained, influenced by a multitude of transpacific cultural references. Her site-specific works on canvas expand her repertoire and ask us to think about the physicality of music. Christina Pataialii — Solid Gold, Te Tuhi, until March 10.