This works was shown at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair in 2015, that critiques the wall as material, similar to other works embedded in New Zealand. The paintings – and they are called paintings – investigate like all the work of this series, wallpaper as an interior décor aspect of the wall. However, it is what the artist subjects the work to and what it does. These work question the ground of a painting – the work is dynamic as it opens to what lies behind the painting - is it wall, is it black? – the oscillating effect positions the viewer. These paintings assert their authority, enabling the wall to become a material. This means the viewer grounds the work whilst negotiating between black and white. Each work in his series had a job to do – to make the conventions of painting – shape, colour, black and white perspective, depth, frame, and now wall a material, not an illusion.

It is without saying that these works are physical, they’re tough but its NZ. Peter McLeavey said in 2004 “to look at an Adsett painting requires a will”.