Installation view of Billy Apple, From the VUW Art Collection (2005). Acrylic on canvas with gold leaf on painted wall, From the Collection series. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2005. Photo: Robert Cross.

Billy Apple, From the VUW Art Collection (2005). Acrylic on canvas with gold leaf, From the Collection series.

Installation view of Billy Apple, Window Cleaning, 5 June 1971 (1971). Black and white photograph and text. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, gift of the artist 2009. Photo: Robert Cross.

Sonya Lacey, still from Newspaper (for Vignelli) (2011). 16mm film transferred to DVD, 3mins 35secs, looped. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2012

Installation view of Philip Dadson, still from Aerial Farm (2003-2004). Single channel DVD, 12mins, looped. From the Polar Projects series (2003-2005). Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2011. Photo: Robert Cross.

Philip Dadson, still from Flutter (2003-2004). Single channel DVD, 9mins, looped. From the Polar Projects series (2003-2005). Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2011.

Installation view of Louise Menzies, Pursuit of an Ideal (2012). Artist’s book. Photo: Robert Cross.

Installation view of Louise Menzies, Pursuit of an Ideal Nos 1-6 (2012). Six colour photographic prints. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, gift of the artist to VUW Library. Photo: Robert Cross.

Installation view of Mladen Bizumic, From Cube to Ball: Photographed Slide-Show Filmed (2010). Double video projection, duration 5mins 9secs, looped. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2011. Photo: Robert Cross

Installation view of 21st-Century Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the VUW Art Collection, showing Lower Chartwell Gallery. Photo: Robert Cross.

Installation view of Elizabeth Thomson, Inner Raoul, Tui Lake (2012). Polymeric vinyl, archival varnish, acrylic and lacquer on routered wood panel. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2012. Photo: Robert Cross.

Installation view of Jae Hoon Lee, Garden (2010), Sunset (2007), Muriwai (2009). Pigment ink on photorag; C-type photograph. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2012. Photo: Robert Cross.

Sriwhana Spong, still from Muttnik (2005). Super-8 transferred to DVD, 4:5 ratio, sound, colour, 3mins 38secs, looped. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2011.

Installation view of Boyd Webb, Botanics—Brown (2003). C-type photograph. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2004. Photo: Robert Cross.

Boyd Webb, Botanics—Brown (2003). C-type photograph. Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, purchased 2004.