OREXART. Oedipus Rex Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand.

Wayne Seyb

North and South

14 October - 1 November 2008

Keenly aware of the tradition of New Zealand painting from van der Velden onwards, Wayne Seyb's appetite for painting is voracious, his oils generously applied almost sculptural, felt as much as seen.

Lindis Pass
oil on cavas 76 x 170 cm

Throughout the 1980’s he met many painters from whom he learned much. They include Toss Woollaston, Philip Clairmont, Jeffrey Harris, Anna Caselberg and J S Parker. In 1982 he married Allyson Stafford and had a daughter Stella and a son Luke. In 1993 he had a one-man exhibition in Munich, Germany and traveled to Germany, Holland and England again with his family in 1997. After living for nine years at Karitane, north of Dunedin, he moved with his family to Christchurch in 1999.

Crooked Arm
oil on canvas 85x 153.2 cm

Nelson Landscape
oil on canvas 93 x 99 cm

Forestry work, cemetery grounds man, fruit picking followed as Seyb pursued his art. His gestural way of approaching painting may in some ways be attributed to his grounding in manual work. This is as much a part of his identity as his artistic heritage.

Victoria Domain
oil on board 33 x 54 cm

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery invited Seyb and Ewan McDougall to exhibit in a joint show entitled “Southern Heat” in 2002. States David Eggleton in the exhibition catalogue: “ Wayne Seyb seeks to immerse us emotionally in paint,. Looking, we feel like we are wading knee-deep in the scenery, or else being rowed out across it, the painter’s brushes our oars”.

Wayne Seyb was born in Temuka on 1 October 1961. After leaving Temuka High School he worked as a caster for New Zealand Insulators. Moving to Dunedin in 1980 he attended the Otago Polytechnic School of Art. Following this in 1981 he opened an art gallery called Art Attack which he believed would give young artists a place to gather and the public a place to view their work.

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