The exhibition leans towards issues of sustainability, in works by Graham Bennett (three of the Disrupt axes from the Axis and Axes exhibition at the Canterbury Museum in 2021); Nigel Brown with the commanding Ned Kelly motif in Nature under Siege; Gregory O’Brien’s works linked to the Pacific and whale journeys, and his Ashburton Riverbook calling out water issues. Alongside them, intense works of colour from Roy Good and Michael Smither.

