Installation view, Scenes from the Life of Herakles: Attic Vases from New Zealand Collections, in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, Scenes from the Life of Herakles: Attic Vases from New Zealand Collections, in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, Scenes from the Life of Herakles: Attic Vases from New Zealand Collections, in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, Marian Maguire, The Labours of Herakles, in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, Marian Maguire, The Labours of Herakles, in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, Marian Maguire, The Labours of Herakles, in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, Julian Dashper, Untitled (Van Gogh in Auckland), in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, Julian Dashper, Untitled (Van Gogh in Auckland), in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, GBA: Print publishing and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, GBA: Print publishing and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, Gavin Hipkins, Bible Studies (New Testament), in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Installation view, Gavin Hipkins, Bible Studies (New Testament), in Source Material: Five Conversations with the Past, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009

Gavin Hipkins, Lord of Rats, 2009, photographic print, 1500 x 1200mm. Courtesy of the artist

Gavin Hipkins, Abducted Young, 2009, photographic print, 1200 x 1300mm. Courtesy of the artist