For 32 years, Cook Island artist Joan Gragg has painted daily life in the Cook Islands.

In ‘Patia Te Pere - The Big Deal’, Joan re-presents her narrative within a first edition series of 1000 decks of playing cards in which the characters, themes and patterns from traditional playing cards are replaced by Cook Islands cultural, environmental and societal images.

The cards depict the unique social attributes on daily display within a contemporary pacific society.