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'Hot spots', 1983

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'Hot spots', 1983

In 1983 influential Irish-born post-object artist Ian Hunter was commissioned to set up the 'Hot spots' installation in the director's office of the National Art Gallery in Wellington. Hunter combined drawing with a variety of found and purchased objects, creating symbols to interpret the then tense interaction between Māori and Pākehā.

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Christina Barton, Post-object and conceptual art – The rise of post-object art, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/43827/hot-spots-1983 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Christina Barton, published 13 December 2013.