Presenting previously unseen or rarely seen works, Painting New Zealand brings together a selection of Ian Scott’s work from the last three decades of his life. It highlights Scott’s interest in the story of Aotearoa New Zealand painting and painters and expands the perception of his practice beyond his most widely known and exhibited Lattices series. In these artworks, Scott brings together what are normally separate approaches to painting, blending portraiture, landscape, text, reproduction and abstraction. Portraits of mid-century Aotearoa artists, or their artworks, literally bustle and vie for attention against local iconography and scenery.