Mark Wooller
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Mark Wooller is a highly regarded contemporary artist whose intricately layered oil paintings explore the deep interconnections between landscape, history, and memory. Working in a refined semi-surrealist style, Wooller draws upon archival material, topographic forms, and written language to investigate how land holds and reveals human narratives over time.
His paintings often feature survey pegs, gridlines, and dense, primeval foliage — visual symbols of how places are mapped, named, and transformed across generations. Carefully inscribed place names act as vessels of cultural memory, underscoring the profound ties between language, identity, and terrain. Wooller’s work navigates the tensions between nature and culture, permanence and change. Through his distinctive use of text and landscape, he examines how we shape the land — and how the land, in turn, shapes us. With a career spanning over three decades, Wooller has held more than 35 solo exhibitions and is represented in major public and private collections in New Zealand and internationally. |
Mark Wooller’s paintings unravel the hidden histories of the land, weaving together text, topography, and symbolism to explore our deep and evolving relationship with place. |
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Mark Wooller Artworks In Situ
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Awards and Accolades
Significant Exhibition
- 2019-2025 Feature Artist, Auckland Art Fair, Auckland
- 2008 Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China
- 2007 Sydney Art Fair, Sydney, Australia
- 2003 LA Art Biennial, Los Angeles
- 2002 Jill Richards Gallery, Sydney
- 1991 Scopas Gallery, Ireland
- James Wallace Trust Collection
- TelstraClear Art Collection
- Numerous private collections