John Pule

Momoheaga (detail), 2021 enamel, pencil and ink on canvas 1500 x 1500mm

b. 1962, Niue. Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand

When John Pule first arrived in inner city Auckland as a young adult in 1980, the formal tenets of poetry and painting were largely unknown to him. Over the next 30 years Pule would explore new directions as both writer and painter. He has since emerged as one of this country’s most recognised painters and one of the most celebrated artists of the “New Oceania”. His work is highly inventive, particularly in its adaptation of traditional Pacific art forms and is challenging and provocative in content.

Gow Langsford Gallery has represented John Pule since 1994.

Left: Fraccionar, 2019. Estancia FEMSA - Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico. View of: John Pule, Prototype - site of old myths, 1995, oil on canvas, 2000 x 1980mm. Photography courtesy of Estancia FEMSA - Casa Luis Barragán. Still Not Close Enough, 2021 oil, enamel, and ink on canvas 2000 x 2000mm