Maree Horner completed her master's degree in sculpture at Elam School of Fine Arts in 1974. Her work from the 1970s was based in the sculptural concerns of that time; site specific, enviromental and installation work. In 1981 after a period of overseas travel she settled in South Taranaki where, in the 90s, she began investigating the processes of printmaking and painting. Her work principally explores the nature of the relationship between the feminine and masculine, between the mind and the body, evoking the erotic through suggestive interplays. Familiar objects selected are generally symbolic of the female. For example a cardboard box could be read in feminine, enclosing nuturing terms. Images employing dislocated architectural elements aim to recontextualise the male within a domestic still life - landscape. The mixed up scale serves to undermine existing power structures symbolically inherent in objects such as the erect column and to establish new meaning. In more recent work such as the Eternal realities series the donkey replaces these architectural forms to build further associations that although male also evoke broader human qualities. Doubly domesticated, Maree's domesticated ass plays donkey with the bent gender of male dominance. Her male donkey inserts himself uncomformably into domestic spaces rectifying the imbalance for which the feminine and domestication have become synonymous.