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This documentary series explores New Zealand's landscape art from the arrival of Pākehā until the 1980s. Across four episodes, it traces the development of a local take on the European tradition, seen in John Gully and Petrus van der Velden's romanticised landscapes, through to homegrown modernism in the 20th century: the hard-edged styles of Don Binney, Robin White, and Michael Smither, to the spiritual abstracts of Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston. The series also looks at the evolution of Māori art, from traditional carving to contemporary Māori artists like Ralph Hotere, Cliff Whiting, and Robyn Kahukiwa.
