Back in Five surveys twenty years of one of Aotearoa’s most bold and distinctive contemporary artists.

Wayne Youle’s sculptural practice charts the passage of time not just as a theme but as a material that shapes, stretches, and reframes meaning. With his trademark playfulness and wit and working across a broad range of media, schoolboy pranks meet sharp cultural critique. Youle tackles big ideas—masculinity, fatherhood, colonial legacy, and bicultural identity—while drawing on the humour and irreverence of his younger self.

Developed in partnership with The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū.