Reece Tong was born in Hawera Taranaki in 1968 and has been making art since his teenage years also playing drums in a high school band in Wellington. Reece has been coming to Pablos for close to 13 years and has utilised various processes within the capacity of his art making practice. Highly prolific with a professional sense of practice, a tight routine and a strong work ethic, it is daily life experiences that inform Reece’s personal imagery which is simplified yet iconic. Reece’s work is informed by the contemporary work that he engages with during weekly gallery visits, the lives of people around him, the natural world, politics and current events, this extends to the iconography utilised in his paintings. The end goal as an artist for Reece is “to get the work out there’’ and in addition to further exhibitions there are future plans to develop his research into mural works in 2022.

Reece Tong 2022