Published 2005 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
40 pages
255mm x 211mm, softcover, with colour illustrations
With essays by Sophie McIntyre and Elena Glasberg
Edited by Ashley Remer and Frank Stark
Design by Base Two
Printed by Printlink
ISBN 1-877309-07-9

This  catalogue was published in association with the exhibition Breaking Ice: Re-Visioning Antarctica, July-October, 2005. Curated by Sophie McIntyre.

'What makes this vast, frozen wilderness so alluring? How has it become so embedded in the popular imagination? Breaking Ice: Re-Visioning Antarctica sets out to explore these questions. It deconstructs and playfully critiques the processes of visual representation, focusing on the ways this southern continent has been exoticised and mythologised.

As Breaking Ice: Re-Visioning Antarctica reveals, artists today look through a different lens and tell their own stories of Antarctica - a land that has, over this time, become popular subject for visual re-presentation, as a myriad of illustrated travelogues, films, blockbuster exhibitions and interactive museum displays demonstrate. These contemporary artists employ a wide range of materials - from digital technology, to painting and textile-based art - to critically engage in a multitude of issues - Antarctica's history of heroism, its environmental degradation, and the artists' struggle to visually define "place" in this white, shifting space.'

— Sophie McIntyre, Breaking Ice: Re-Visioning Antarctica