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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Human Endeavour
Installation view
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
ADAM
Installation view
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
ADAM
2024
Soapstone, stainless steel, tektite, chain
450 x 125 x 140mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Installation view
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
The gift that keeps giving and taking back
2024
Bamboo back scratcher, pearl
17 x 25 x 422mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
The gift that keeps giving and taking back
2024
Bamboo back scratcher, pearl
17 x 25 x 422mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Installation view
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Human Endeavour
2012/2024
Acrylic on cotton sheet
900 x 1400 mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Installation view
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Shepherd’s Warning
2024
Acrylic and ink on linen
273 x 367mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Installation view
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Installation view
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Do not feed the Gods
2024
Collage
210 x 145 mm (423 x 323 mm framed)
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Travellers
2024
Collage
155 x 240 mm (323 x 423 mm framed)
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
SURVIVOR
2024
Collage
150 x 240 mm (323 x 423 mm framed)
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
My yellow bucket runneth over
2024
Collage
173 x 190mm (323 x 423 mm framed)
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Installation view
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Land of Milk and Honey
Taken 2012 printed 2015
Digital photo Ed. 1/1
635 x 875 mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
BOO!
2024
Spray paint, collage and acrylic on 300gsm Hahnemule paper
70 x 70 mm (284 x 264 mm framed)
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
THE ONE
2024
Collage
66 x 50 mm (300 x 262 mm framed)
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
THE ONE
2024
Collage
66 x 50 mm (300 x 262 mm framed)
$POA | SOLD

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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Roots
2024
Ink, acrylic, spraypaint on 300gsm Hahnemule paper
195 x 125 mm (362 x 272 mm framed)
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Community Notices - Room for rent (with eight others, sometimes eleven)
2024
Acrylic on linen and drawing pins
355 x 270 mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Guitarist Wanted ( for soft rock band)
2024
Acrylic on linen and drawing pins
355 x 270 mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Psychic Readings
2024
Acrylic on linen and drawing pins
355 x 270 mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Guinea pigs for sale
2024
Acrylic on linen and drawing pins
355 x 270 mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Life Model Required

2024
Acrylic on linen and drawing pins
355 x 270 mm
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Poster Child & The Pitch
2024
Coloured card collage
Largest 587 x 470mm (framed)
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Wayne Youle
The Land of Milk and Honey
Installation view
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The Land of Milk and Honey

Wayne Youle

07 Feb – 02 Mar 2024

Wayne Youle (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaeke) is a multi-media artist who has produced a remarkably diverse body of work since graduating from the Wellington Polytechnic School of Design in 1999.  His work is often humorous and addresses issues of identity, race and the commodification of cultural symbols. Wayne’s work has been shown in national museums and public galleries throughout New Zealand and overseas.  He lives and works in Amberley, North Canterbury. 

Wayne Youle dissects modes and notions of selling a dream with ‘The Land of Milk and Honey’. Youle draws back the curtain on promises of fortunes and fair weather to interrogate the alluring narrative that ‘the grass is always greener’ somewhere else.

Evocative titles such as ‘Best laid plans…’, and a loquacious, sometimes deceptive materiality lay bare the reality of these capricious hopes. The proffered pearl of ‘The gift that keeps giving and taking back’ is tenuously held aloft by a cheap bamboo back scratcher. The ‘ADAM’ who dangles a tektite apple on an ostentatious hip-hop chain is, in truth, carved from soft sandstone. Imperial visions of an untouched paradise give way to reminders of colonial violence and the uplift of artefacts.

Graphic designer Youle plays with the construction of an idea (for example, the imagined idyll of ‘Sheperd’s Warning’) alongside the physical construction of an object or image. Pieces echo advertising languages used to entice travelers, or offer services, safety, security. A substantial post-and-ply billboard occupies the primary gallery space.

In depicting what we are drawn to, ‘The Land of Milk and Honey’ asks: what are we running toward? Collages on paper become Memento Mori, skull and jawbone rest amid rolling landscapes and Māori carvings. Torn ticket stubs become the missing ‘teeth’ of Community Notices.

‘The Land of Milk and Honey’ pulls no punches, tackling difficult truths and diverse mediums with pointed humor and discerning design.

 

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