Shaun Waugh lives and works in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His work centres on the material culture of the medium's own history, critically examining the complex relation between images and the realities they aim to depict, and highlighting how they can deceive, reduce and seduce, in order to question the authenticity of what they show.

Working primarily with the complexities of colour control in printing processes, he explores and expands their artistic and technical potential. Avoiding arbitrary definitions in favour of interdisciplinary tendencies, his practice exploits the tension between image and object-making, pitching chromatically driven work into an uncertain terrain between the recorded image, painting and sculpture. This first monograph is constructed chromatically: the essence of colour — red, green, blue, greyscale, yellow — becomes the building block of the whole.