A New Zealand artist known for controversial paintings has released his latest work, a topless Maori woman, in time for Anzac Day.
Lester Hall's print, entitled Remember Them, features the woman shot with arrows and holding a pounamu mere (weapon).
Her skin is tattooed with various New Zealand and internationalwars.
Pop artist Lester Hall in his home studio in Kerikeri, Northland. Photo / Nick Reed
Hall has painted raunchy images of Queen Elizabeth in the past, and had a dig at super-wealthy Eric Watson who he caricatured in colonial dress, beneath a sub-heading "Ngatimotherf******".
There was also the time in 2011 when the Kerikeri artist was labelled a racist by school children over his images of All Black Sid Going passing a severed Maori head, James Cook with a moko and a print with the title Cheeky Little Darkie.
One of the pop artist's more recent upsets was caused by his Mokomokai portrait of a Maori head with roses as eyes and with a rose stem clenched between the teeth.
He told the Herald previously art patron Dame Jenny Gibbs detested his work so much she once wrote to him telling him what a prick he is.
Famous All Black, Sid Going painted as rubgy player Grant Batty with a Mokomokai (preserved Maori head with moko).
Hall said his latest work was a reinterpretation of his Dusky Maiden artwork and "speaks to the care and defence of our country and lifestyle and integrity in armed conflict".
