Andy Leleisi'uao b. 1969
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Andy Leleisi'uaoElementary Trek, 2019Acrylic on canvas152.5 x 152.5 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoEbony Shift, 2019Acrylic on canvas153 x 101.5 x 4 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoIncipient Meander, 2019Acrylic on canvas153.5 x 152 x 6.4 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoA Displaced Amble, 2022Acrylic on canvas101.5 x 61.2 x 4 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoSethol Village in Kamoa, 2020Acrylic on canvas50 x 40 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoAn Amicable Sectariphilia, 2024Acrylic on canvas150 x 120 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoA Placatory Schismaphilia, 2023Acrylic on canvas150 x 120 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoDissident Trylapid II, 2023acrylic on canvas80 x 70 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoHeterodox Them, 2023Acrylic on canvas40 x 30 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoHeterodox Together, 2023Acrylic on canvas40 x 30 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoHeterodox Us, 2023Acrylic on canvas40 x 30 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoOnyx Passage , 2019Acrylic on canvas152.5 x 101.5 x 4 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoEnigmatic Tomorrow, 2022Acrylic on canvas150 x 120 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoEquinox Afternoon, 2022Acrylic on canvas80 x 70 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoUlolpia Village in Kamoa, 2021Acrylic on canvas50 x 40 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoEvolving Jaunt, 2019Acrylic on canvas152.5 x 152.5 x 6.8 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoNascent Walk, 2019Acrylic on canvas152.5 x 152.5 x 6.8 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoObsolete People Part I , 2014Acrylic on canvas91 x 70.9 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoA Displaced MeanderAcrylic on canvas101.5 x 61.2 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoA Displaced WandererAcrylic on canvas101.5 x 61.2 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoAn Uncanny Catharsis of Unrequited Bones - Part VIIAcrylic on canvas150 x 110 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoDiaspora of BeliefAcrylic on canvas80 x 70 x 4 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoEve of ArophidsAcrylic on canvas150 x 120 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoStudy IVInk on paper21 x 29.5 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoStudy VIIInk on paper21 x 29.5 cm
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Andy Leleisi'uaoStudy VIIIInk on paper21 x 29.5 cm
Andy Leleisi'uao grew up in Mangere, South Auckland. His work is reflective of his experience as a New Zealand-born Samoan.
Andy was awarded a scholarship to attend AUT and received a Master of Fine Arts with honours in 2002. He has exhibited throughout New Zealand and has been involved in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Rarotonga, Germany, Taiwan, and the USA.
In the late 1990s, Andy was awarded residencies at the Casula Powerhouse in Sydney, the MacMillian Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury, in 2009 the Asia NZ Foundation/Taipei Artist Village and recently McCahon House, Titirangi, 2010. During these residencies Andy further developed works critiquing social, cultural, and political stereotypes and realities of Samoans in New Zealand from a New Zealand-born Samoan perspective. In 2018, Andy completed a 5 month residency at the International Studio & Curational Programme (ISCP) in New York City. His first survey exhibition, 'KAMOAN MINE', opened in 2019 at the TSB Wallace Arts Centre.
His unique iconography included such symbols as sockets that have been imprinted on the foreheads of struggling Samoan factory worker migrants in his Mangere community. Some works condemn abuse within the Samoan community as well as hypocrisy by church leaders. However, there is also a playful and hopeful side to his work which can be seen in through his Ufological paintings, a series of fantasy villages on an island where villagers ride moa and climb over hearts while spaceships import megalithic moai from Rapanui. Whether he is confronting the issues of Samoan diaspora or narratives of human and family relationships.
Andy draws inspiration from pop culture, world history and struggles from his own personal experiences. The story told through Andy's work reflects a united species that hold no concern for cultural, sexual or racial differences.
In 2021, Andy was presented the Senior Pacific Artist award from Creative New Zealand.
Andy Leleisi'uao's work is included in the permanent collections of Pataka Museum and Art Gallery, Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, the Chartwell Collection, the Wallace Arts Trust collection, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney and the Museum of Ethnography, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Aotearoa Art Fair 2024
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Aotearoa Art Fair 2023
STAND A5 2 - 5 March 2023ARTIS Gallery returned Aotearoa Art Fair on Thursday 2 - Sunday 5 March at The Cloud on Tāmaki Makaurau Queens Wharf. Located at Booth A5 the Gallery featured two distinct instalments over the course of the Fair. During the opening two days, we exhibited new works from Liam Barr, Nigel Brown, John Edgar, Fatu Feu'u, Hamish Foote, Andy Leleisi'uao, Peter Panyoczki, Ann Robinson, and Terry Stringer.Read more -
Aotearoa Art Fair 2022
STAND A5 16 - 20 November 2022ARTIS Gallery presented three exhibitions over the course of five days at the Aotearoa Art Fair. New Zealand’s premier showcase for contemporary art, held on Wed 16 – Sun 20 Nov 2022 at The Cloud on Auckland’s Queens Wharf. For the Opening Night, Wednesday 16 November, and the first public day on Thursday, 17 November, the Gallery presented works from the estates of John Edgar & Llew Summers. Pivotal works owned by both artists have been made available by the their families to be exhibited on the ARTIS Gallery stand (A5).Read more
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Andy Leleisi'uao
An Uncanny Catharsis of Unrequited Bones 30 November - 20 December 2021The whole series, engraved in our memory as one large work, reads itself as an ever-moving procession, an organised ceremony in which beings look for meaningful connections without manifestations of power and wealth. So the artist recognizes that our being human is invested not simply in our existence as individuals, but also in our collective existence as social beings. Our ability to rise above our individual physical selves and to see ourselves as part of a larger project, to project onto the world, and onto human life, a purpose that exists only because we as human beings create itRead more -
Auckland Art Fair
BOOTH A6 24 - 27 February 2021New Zealand’s premier showcase for contemporary art returned in 2021 from Wednesday 24 – Saturday 27 February at The Cloud on Auckland’s Queens Wharf .Read more