Angus Collis’ subject matter is drawn from personal memory and experience, reimagined in fictional and self-contained worlds of painting. Often away from home for lengthy periods of time, Angus embeds small iconic and familiar details within his paintings, such as the corrugated iron on farmsheds, or breezeblocks surrounding a bowling club. These objects and scenes relating to life in New Zealand are filtered through memory; the finished painting is a kind of inescapable subjective response to the landscape