Sculpture

Sculpture and my love for it developed hugely during my time at secondary school. I read ‘The agony and the ecstasy’ about Leonardo and his sculptural time at the Vatican. It was however an exhibition of Auguste Rodin in the Wanganui Art Gallery which had me drooling at the mouth. It was amazing and was the beginning of an unfinished dream to become a sculptor. My time at art school was interrupted so that I could go on a world cricket tour; that is another story. While my immediate thought was to return and finish my degree my career took off. The pragmatism of producing and selling artwork, entering and being accepted in art competitions, fell into the realm of the painted canvas. It worked, and I rubbed shoulders briefly with Ralph Hotere and Ted Bulmore in the early days of my career at the Tokoroa Art Awards.

Finished pieces are few. My ‘girls’, Emelia, a bronze; Random Spaces; figures moulded from clay and wax( ceramic and bronze in finished form) and hung between suspended frames attached between the ceiling and the floor. Also the associated girls, hands strapped together behind their backs. Constructed from left over scraps in the studio, and wrapped with paint soaked bandages of canvas. All of these figures were looking over their right hand shoulders. This was a direct response to 9/11, the event which changed our world from one of innocence and trust into a nightmare of unsavoury dissidence and unrest the world over.

At present my sculptural projects reflect upon our nation, the meandering interplay between Maori and Pakeha and our way forward. 2014

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