Ambera Wellmann (born 1982 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia)[1] is a Canadian painter who depicts human bodies in between play and violence, movement and dissolution.
[5] Wellmann approaches their paintings with "painterly catachresis" which she describes as a process to deliberately use a word, image, or pictorial representation in a way that is not correct.
[3] This manifests through irrational pictorial space and the depiction of an indeterminate number of bodies, genders, species, all without any predetermined visual hierarchy.
Wellmann is known for her nested and collage-like painting technique that portrays twisted and abstracted human bodies and animal-like figurines.
[9] Curator Sonja-Maria Borstner notes that the artist's liquid brushstrokes generate a peculiar arena for non-binary identities whose "contested terrain" is constantly under litigation and boundary passing.