Issue

GRANT TAKLE, Taken, 1998, black and galvanised enamel on plywood, 240 x 160 cm, courtesy Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch.

Degrees of Separation

ZHU JIA, Related to Environment, 1997 (detail), video still. Photograph Sarah Blee

Speechless

Charles McPhee with Self-portrait, c.1985, oil on velvet, 60 x 40 cm

Velvet Dreams

JOHN WONG, How Far Can I Go?, 1998, video, plastic boxes, paper, dimensions variable.

Process and Politics

ZUNZI WONG, Lee Garden, 1998 (detail) computer image

Misunderstanding Art

MAREE HORNER, Diving Board, 1974 (reconstruction 1998), mixed media, dimensions variable. Collection GovettBrewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth.

Action Replay

BILL HAMMOND, Watching for Buller, 1993, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, Wallace Trust Collection, Auckland.

Bill Hammond Paints New Zealand

AVA SEYMOUR, Valley of the Fruitcakes, 1997, colour photograph of collage, 75 x 95 cm.

The End of Improvement

DANIEL MALONE and DENISE KUM, Kum of Sum Yung Guy, 1997, video installation, dimensions variable, courtesy the artists.

Going East

THEO SCHOON, Untitled, c. 1957 (detail), gouche on paper, laid on board, 115 x 85 cm. Collection Jenny Gibbs, Auckland

THEO SCHOON

MICHAEL PAREKOWHAI, They Comfort Me Too, 1994, wood, acrylic, 182 x 325.5 cm. Collection Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

The Indefinite Article

PETER ROBINSON, Fish + Chips/Boy Am I Scarred Eh!/Our Place, 1998, mixed media on cardboard, 111 x 77.5cm; 111.5 × 80 cm; 157 x 111.4 cm, courtesy Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New

PETER ROBINSON, GORDON WALTERS AND THE CORPORATE KORU

COLIN McCAHON, Te Tangi o te Pipiwhararua (The Song of the Shining Cuckoo)A Poem by Tangirau Hotere, 1974, oil on five unstretched canvases, 177 x 452 cm. Collection Hocken Library

MAORI PROPHETS IN THE WORK OF COLIN McCAHON

SHANE COTTON, Whakakitenga ki Kenehi, 1998, oil on canvas, 200 x 150 cm. Gow Family Collection, Auckland.

LOCATING Shane Cotton