Euan Macleod was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1956. He was awarded a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) by the Ilam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University, in 1979, before moving to Sydney in 1981. He has held more than fifty solo shows in New Zealand and Australia and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Australasia and internationally. Euan's work is represented in many private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Euan has won art prizes in Australia, including the Archibald in 1999, the Sulman Prize in 2001, the Blake Prize in 2006, the New South Wales Parliament's inaugural Plein Air painting prize in 2008, the Tattersall's Landscape Prize in 2000 and 2009, the Gallipoli Art Prize, 2009, and the Dobell Drawing Prize in 2021. Craig Potton (MNZM) is one of New Zealand's foremost landscape photographers and a noted conservationist. He has produced many books, written and presented two television documentary series and worked in the film industry. As well as co-owning a publishing company he has a gallery featuring his work from which prints of his images can be purchased.He has tramped and climbed extensively in the Southern Alps, including a three month traverse of the Southern Alps.