This series of work celebrates Early Renaissance painting and uses it as a vehicle to rethink appearances of the New World and of Aotearoa.

Painting of the Renaissance present icons through which the entire social, political and cultural fabric of Europe might be understood.

Creating colours was a major undertaking for Renaissance painters. Colours that we take for granted had to be handmade from minerals, such as azurite and malachite, and plants, such as saffron.

The False Tooth Pelican is a prehistoric and extinct bird that was indigenous to Aotearoa.

Renaissance Madonnas and Angels are not usually associated with domestic spaces, manual work or part time jobs in small-town coffee bars in Aotearoa.

A small gecko, verdant foliage, a fragment of a Rita Angus-like landscape and an industrial building provide a backdrop to an angel probably inspired by Piero Della Francesca's 'Madonna and Child Attended by Angels' painted in 1460.