Pete Wheeler

Dunno Yet

2021

Oil, oil stick and pigment on canvas

1830mm (H) x 1500mm (W)

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Artist Statement

Inspiration can be taken from two seemingly disparate objects/images. In this case, a Road Runner cartoon and a Victorian gate design… The beauty of painting is that it exists in its own world!

About the Artist

Pete Wheeler

I have never shied away from the big existential issues - death, politics, religion - and indeed, I brazenly wrestle them onto the canvas. The most dramatic or kitschiest imagery takes a back seat to getting pigment down on a surface in a diversity of techniques. I am a painter's painter, whose trajectory has taken me from the gothic, slacker, grunge South Island art scene to Berlin, where I drank deeply from echoes of German post-war, neo-expressionist painting.
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