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Don Abbott is Deputy Editor of Art New Zealand, and author of Vivid: The Paul Hartigan Story and Elizabeth Rees: I Paint.

Grant Banbury is an art consultant, curator, writer and art educator based in Christchurch.

is a visual artist currently based in Nelson. He has an MFA from

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