Maree Horner is a Taranaki artist currently investigating processes of printmaking, painting and digital imagery. She completed a MFA at Elam in 1974. Her work from this time was a forerunner in Post Object art movement in New Zealand, celebrated with the exhibition Groundswell: Avant-Garde Auckland 1971-1979 at Auckland Art Gallery in 2018/19 and earlier in Action Replay 1998, at Artspace Aotearoa, the Auckland Art Gallery (New), and the Govett Brewster Art Gallery. Diving Board 1972, now in the Govett Brewster Art Gallery collection was exhibited as a key work in All Lines Converge 2017/18 and in the canon of Ruth Buchanan’s The scene in which I find myself Or, where does my body belong, 2019/20.

In 2019 Chair, 1973 was recreated and shown at Anderson Rhodes Gallery, Ngāmotu - New Plymouth. Her graphic works stem from the archaeology of the ideas that can be traced back to Chair 1973, include Familiar monuments at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery 1996, Monumental obsessions-wallpaper, a Cameo Wall project at Te Tuhi 2006. Chair 1973-2019, was acquired by the Auckland Art Gallery in 2020 and in early 2023 was exhibited alongside Familiar Monuments, 1994-1996, in Ruth Buchanan’s inaugural show Door, window, world, a pairing with J.C.Sturm at Artspace Aotearoa.