Wealleans' work has been described as "monstrous creations (which) morph and bleed between painting and sculpture. Their wild and unruly appearance gives the impression that the artist has grown them in a subterranean lair through a mixture of wizardry and weird science rather than having created them in a white-walled studio. Embarrassingly tactile, the gnarls, knobs and bejewelled facets that either sprout from the wall or create caverns, recesses and bulbous protrusions call up mysterious voids and a grotesque fertility."—Hamish McKay Gallery
Cuts Both Ways features a ritualistic summoning of a monstrous and destructive 'other'.