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Art Collector acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country across Australia, the land on which we live, work, and create.
May 9 – October 18, 2026
The Dowse Art Museum
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.

Matthew Newkirk: Distorted Image