Much of the dynamic tension in Wolfgramm's work stems from the conflicting cultures that define his current life and ancestry. With an Irish mother and a Tongan father, Wolfgramm looks upon Tonga as a "foreign homeland"; yet he also considers himself "an ordinary Kiwi" within a changing New Zealand ethnographic landscape, where the Pacific is not only where we 'are' but increasingly where we are 'from'.

For Wolfgramm, paintings are narratives of migration, beginning as the brush first darkens the canvas and unfolding their stories until they are told. Layered with ardent colour and inky structures both stark and submerged, Wolfgramm's works recount histories through the weaving of forms, their ebbs and flows. Wolfgramm views every painting as "a chapter, a verse, a voice that is passing the experience of my forebears to me and through me and on, out into the wide world"; like emissaries, Wolfgramm's paintings themselves migrate, voyaging out into the world and carrying their stories with them.

Though it references both Celtic and Polynesian motifs, Wolfgramm's work is primarily concerned with giving expression to contemporary cultural experience. The spiky hooks and laddered frameworks that form the architecture of his glossy surfaces are, as he puts it, "a personally evolving set of marks that, while undeniably Polynesian in appearance, could also be viewed as migratory birds themselves that have had their separate beginnings in Belfast and Va'vau and their weavings and joinings, their nest building, their home, their children, in West Auckland."