PROVENANCE Dr Lindsay Pool Collection Important Paintings & Contemporary Art, Webb's 27/03/2014 Private Collection, Auckland Literature

ILLUSTRATED Detail back cover, Garth Tapper New Zealand Painter, William P Tapper, Tapper Art, 1998 p. 82 & 83 Garth Tapper New Zealand Painter, William P Tapper, Tapper Art, 1998

"The Law and Its People was an amalgam of 'the message, the design, the animation, the juxtapositioning of figures'. It proved a very difficult composition to balance with its many different aspects of law in one room. It included a Judge, the Jury, a problem Maori youth, and a witness stand. I got carried away with the composition and put a skull in to symbolise the intellectual. I wasn't completely satisfied though. I had reservations about the colour and the tone. Oh! One could go on and on forever."

GARTH TAPPER

In order to understand his subject Tapper was shown around the old Supreme Court in Auckland and was invited to sit in on a week-long case and draw freely from the press bench.

Text, Garth Tapper New Zealand Painter, William P Tapper, Tapper Art, 1998

EXHIBITED The Law and Its People, Ferner Galleries, Auckland, 2008