Justin Paton

Justin Paton is an award-winning and extensively published author and highly regarded art curator. In his evocative style and over the seven chapters, Paton investigates a place we all have a stake in—from houses of memory to upturned houses, from haunted houses to light houses, from intimate spaces of shelter to optimistic future communities. Home is a powerful word. It...

In this landmark new book, celebrated writer and curator Justin Paton takes readers on a journey through the landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand as seen by our foremost modern artist. 'My painting tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.' — Colin McCahon McCahon (1919-1987) is widely recognised...

Acclaimed art writer Justin Paton takes us on a journey of exploration through the centuries and across the painted world - from the luscious fruit of Italy's Caravaggio to the lonely landscapes of New Zealand's Rita Angus, the dazzling panoramas of America's Lari Pittman and the mysterious 'tombstones' of Japanese artist On Kawara. Whether you're a keen art collector, a...

Taking the form of a colourful and dynamic 'handbook', this multilayered publication reveals the many people, objects, and ideas that have come together to create a one-of-a-kind project: Mike Hewson's The Key's Under the Mat. Renowned for award-winning public projects that are at once artworks, play areas, and places to be, Mike Hewson has reimagined the Art Gallery of New...