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00.Because of where I live
What thrives on these soils (group)
Finest Fuchsias
Local Makers—Riverton
Local Makers
Bush Coat
A Gathering Distrust
Private Lodgings

Artist CV

 

Daegan Wells is an artist living and working in Ōraka Colac Bay, Aotearoa. Through his archival and sculptural practice, Wells uses narrative to explore political, environmental, social and cultural events from recent history.

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2016Private Lodgings

Blue Oyster

Tuesday 2—Saturday 27 August
Curated by Chloe Geoghegan

Through his archival and sculptural practice, Daegan Wells has been observing, researching, and collecting artefacts from the Christchurch Residential Red Zone for several years, considering the exploration of this largely unoccupied area to be akin to drawing. It was during this process that he came across W. A. Sutton’s former home studio, which was at the time caught in flux between the Earthquake Commission and Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. While the surrounding neighbourhood has been transformed into an empty grassed landscape, the Sutton House remains, isolated and overgrown, prone to vandalism and in disrepair. Private Lodgings primarily focuses on the surrounding garden, a site of memory for many who came and went from Sutton’s studio from 1963 to 1992.