Shortlisted for Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Illustrative Category 2006 and Spectrum Print Book Design Awards: Best Illustrated Book 2006.

Justin Paton has been curator of contemporary art at Dunedin Public Art Gallery since 1999. He is widely published as an art critic and for the past five years has edited the journal of New Zealand art and writing Landfall. As a curator, his exhibitions have included Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, a survey of the work of Ronnie van Hout called I?ve Abandoned Me, and Big Talk, an exhibition of wall paintings by US word artist Kay Rosen. His book about Australian sculptor Ricky Swallow was published by Craftsman House/Thames and Hudson Australia in 2004, and new essays will appear in forthcoming publications on the artists Daniel van Sturmer (Dunedin Public Art Gallery) and Jude Rae (Ouroborous Publishing). Anne Noble: States of Grace edited by Justin, was published by Victoria University Press in 2001.