Published 2005 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
28 pages
298mm x 212mm, softcover, with black and white illustrations
With essays by Kirsten Hickey, Mathew Norman, Vivienne Morrell, David Maskill, Lindsay Archibald, Thomasin Sleigh, Katie Duke and Michael Havell.
Design by Base Two
Printed by Graphic Press
ISBN 1-877309-08-7

This exhibition catalogue was published in association with Artiface: Artists' Portraits in Prints, October 2005 - February 2006. Curated by David Maskill and his Honours students.

Artiface: Artists' Portraits in Prints was the fourth in a continuing series of exhibitions organised by Art History Honours students at Victoria University of Wellington in collaboration with the Adam Art Gallery. This year's project focuses on portraiture and explores representations of artistic identity in portraits of artists and their subjects in the medium of European printmaking from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. 
Portraiture is one of the 'hot topics' in contemporary art practice, especially photography. Artists are questioning notions of identity and representation in a medium that has an inherent potential for manipulation and distortion. As this exhibition demonstrates, this is not a new phenomenon. 

Since the Renaissance, artists and their subjects have colluded in the production and dissemination of portrait prints which represent them in many  (dis)guises. Artiface: Artists' Portraits in Prints examines some of these representations and the contexts in which they occurred and recurred from the beginnings of European printmaking to the twentieth century.