Provenance

Purchased from Webb's, September, 2000 Private Collection, Bay of Plenty

Exhibited

HE ICON 500 
Wayne Youle
2 - 24 March 2005, The Physics Room

Seemingly at odds with the small icons that race around the outside of the room, a giant Swastika form sits on the floor. Youle's interest in this form stems from his experience as a late teen with a book called Well Made New Zealand by Richard Wolfe where he found the name 'Kia Ora Tools' arching beautifully above a Swastika symbol. Youle's initial association had been with the Swasticka's dark use in modern times, and this was a troubling image. As the young artist found more information about the history of the symbol, it took on a less aggressive context. Youle has used the Swastika repeatedly in his work over the past five years. In this work he encourages us to read the form as a Youle icon, thereby inserting his name into the domain of some of New Zealand's most important art figures.