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- Ana Iti2020
- Andrew McLeod2007
- Andy Leleisi’uao2010
- Anoushka Akel2024
- Ava Seymour2009
- Ayesha Green2022
- Ben Cauchi2011
- Benjamin Work2024
- Bepen Bhana2016
- Campbell Patterson2015
- Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss2021
- Dan Arps2014
- Daniel Malone2014
- Emily Karaka2021
- Emma Fitts2018
- Eve Armstrong2009
- Fiona Pardington2013
- Gavin Hipkins2007
- George Watson2024
- Glen Hayward2011
- Imogen Taylor2017
- James Robinson2007
- Jess Johnson2019
- Jim Speers2010
- Judy Millar2006
- Kathy Barry2012
- Lisa Reihana2009
- Liyen Chong2012
- Louise Menzies2016
- Luise Fong2008
- Martin Basher2010
- Michael Stevenson2023
- Moniek Schrijer2021
- NELL2023
- Neke Moa2023
- Nicola Farquhar2018
- Oliver Perkins2017
- Owen Connors2023
- Regan Gentry2012
- Richard Frater2020
- Richard Lewer2008
- Rohan Wealleans2008
- Ruth Buchanan2013
- Sarah Smuts-Kennedy2016
- Sefton Rani2025
- Sorawit Songsataya2018
- Steve Carr2020
- Suji Park2015
- Tanu Gago2022
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Rohan Wealleans
YEAR OF RESIDENCY
March - June 2008
Rohan Wealleans' monstrous creations morph and bleed between painting and sculpture. Their wild and unruly appearance gives the impression that the artist has grown them in a subterranean lair through a mixture of wizardry and weird science rather than having created them in a white-walled studio. Embarrassingly tactile, the gnarls, knobs and bejewelled facets that either sprout from the wall or create caverns, recesses and bulbous protrusions call up mysterious voids and a grotesque fertility.
Wealleans layers paint on to fibreglass and polystyrene, cutting back into these architectonic layers in a technique that resembles millefiori glass work in which the multicoloured patterns of glass rods are only viewable from their cut ends. Segments are sliced from one surface and added to another in a joyful accretion of colour and texture. His paintings can amass up to 80 layers of paint, resulting in a psychedelic, visceral, fascinating and at times repulsive surface.
Artist Artworks
Rohan Wealleans
Untitled
2008
Fabrino Rag paper
790 x 1090mm (framed)
$4,200
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Rohan Wealleans
Thing
2008
mixed media
310 x 225 x 90mm
Collection of McCahon House Trust
Photo: Meg Porteous
Parehuia Residency studio occupied by Wealleans, 2008