Wellesley Binding

Born  Melbourne 1946, emigrated to new Zealand 1974, has lived in Hawkes Bay since 1988. Apart from a short period of study of Illustration and Design at RMIT Melbourne 1968, is a ‘self taught’ painter. Master of Fine Arts, Auckland University, 2003.

Has been teaching at EIT since 1993, currently Co-ordinator of 2D Image and Drawing.

Since 1999 has worked on his ‘Man Island’ project, an invented place resembling N.Zed, where he has imagined a history from the colonial to contemporary suburbia, in which a band of male heroes play out fantasies and myths of great circumstance in moody landscapes. He has been known to become a character in his own fictions.

John Rajchman (2000), writes of Gilles Deleuze as ‘(trying) to rethink the whole logic of possibility and its relations with fiction and reality, and so rediscovers in ourselves and our world a Humean sense of an artifice in which we come to believe.’

Wineboxes 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2013.

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