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contemporary artists have shed the convention of traditional portraiture

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misfits and outcasts

To create this tribute to that integral part of our culture - the Kiwi pub - George Lockyer has travelled the length and breadth of New Zealand visiting the country's public houses

bring cheer

Dream Dealer C15 contemporary artists have shed theGrowing up in 1950s Auckland, Greg Newbold's early years were marked by order and chaos in equal measure, as his stable childhood later became transformed by his mother's alcoholism. After leaving school at 17, he entered university in 1970 and soon became immersed in the drug fuelled hedonism of the era. Always a risk taker, he began dealing in the drugs he was using until he was arrested in 1975 and charged with offering to sell 34 grams of heroin