John Pule

John Pule’s big print Mana He Aga, Manako swarms with drawn-on scrolls and scribbles, with dashes and dots, with crosses, stripes and blottings. His distinctive way of drawing seems a bit like a form of writing. In fact, Pule is also a poet and a novelist, and when he began his career he would paint the words of his poems and stories directly onto canvas as a text to be read. He also made figurative paintings, inspired by the style of Paul Gauguin, about French nuclear testing in the Pacific.