November 5 - November 23, 1991 From Reason and Myth

“This exhibition presents a new range of bronze sculpture and models by local sculptor Paul Dibble. The works, as suggested by evocative titles such as Navigating with Blake, Looking for a Place to Settle and New Zealand Live Sheep Trade are cast studies about New Zealand’s place in the Pacific. They embody the interaction of themes about settlement, the environment, hybrid culture, classicism and illusion.”

Taken from the Quarterly Manawatu Art Gallery magazine dated August – September 1991

“Until I went to Auckland city, when I was 18, the only sculpture I had seen were the war monuments which feature in many of our smaller settlements. The quiet, heroic strength of many of these images has stayed with me. The works I have put into this exhibition explore a persistent ideal of a heroic Pacific. This is a Pacific which is brutalized and loved; that is always finely balanced and always vulnerable.”

Quote from the artist dated May 1990.