This work is a tribute to a painting in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna Milan by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo.

Phill explains that Noel is someone he worked with during an artists residency in timber mills in South Australia.

Blackball was a mining community on the West Coast of the South Island and inspired this relief.

Phill explains that he worked in the brick factory in New Lynn, West Auckland, in the 1990s.

In 1908 Blackwall miners went on strike for three months demanding the right to a half hour break for lunch.

Phill says he thinks of women working in the timber mills of South Australia as displaying the same fortitude as Käthe Kollwitz.

This relief was inspired by a photograph by one of the documentary photographers of the Spanish Civil War.

The poet James K. Baxter gave one of the bush tracks in the Auckland Domain its semi-official name, the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

This work contrasts the golden tranquility of portrayals of children in Italian paintings with the misery of 19th century Aboriginal woman in the Australian outback.

This work is a tribute to John Brack 1920 - 99, a realist painter of modern urban life in New South Wales and beyond.

This piece celebrates the life of the painter and graphic artist Frans Masereel.

Frank was the secretary of the Auckland Meat Workers Union. Phill thinks of him as man of great mana.

This experimental work references landscapes by the painter Rita Angus (1908 -70).

Phill explains that this work celebrates Lenard , his father. He worked as a cable-jointer for most of his life.

Doris Lusk (1916 - 90) rides through a changing natural and political landscape in New Zealand during 1948.

The sculpture is a tribute to a painting by Rita Angus of her friend Betty Curnow.

Scrimgeour (1903 - 87) was a Christian socialist, radio broadcaster and member of the Auckland Methodist City Mission.

The work shows three generations of a Maori family who worked at the Waharoa Dairy Factory.

Phill's son Jon features at the centre of this work and reflects on the question of how young people navigate life and find their place in contemporary society.

Making this work provided an opportunity for further reflections on questions concerning where the social and political worlds in which we find ourselves embedded in come from.

This is one of four pieces through which the style and content of much of the rest of the work in this series of studio works was developed.

This is one of four pieces through which the style and content of much of the rest of the work in this series of studio works was developed.

This is one of four pieces through which the style and content of much of the rest of the work in this series of studio works was developed.

This is one of four pieces through which the style and content of much of the rest of the work in this series of studio works was developed.