Gnarly Wellys (2022)

There's a strange romance on the Wellington South Coast…

An unhinged neoprene dream in screaming gales…

A train wreck of surfers, pedigree pooches and waves like cabbage…

Part ode, part prison diary, GNARLY WELLYS is a bleak, brutal and sometimes beautiful look at the relationship between surfer and surf at Lyall Bay in 2021.

A turbulent 33 poems combined with 7 rolls of film to document a year of wave riding in Pōneke over 124 pages.

By Sam Ezra.