Wellington Sculpture Trust
The trust was established in 1982 to raise funds for Tanya Ashken's Albatross and to commission high quality sculpture for Wellington. It works in partnership with Wellington City Council, Creative New Zealand, other trusts with Wellington links, public a
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PARK(ING) DAY 2022Wellington Sculpture Trust | News
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- Friday 4 March is Wellington's PARK(ing) Day! Providing temporary public open space—one parking spot at a time! For one day a year, artists and community groups take over inner-city car parks, challenging us to think about how we can make better use of our public space. Take a walk down Cuba Street between 9am and 5pm for a surreal outdoor art experience!
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August 2014: 4 Plinths 5 call for proposals
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- The four plinths are the massive bollards situated on the waterfront between Te Papa and Circa Theatre. It is on this site that the Wellington Sculpture Trust showcases New Zealand sculptural practice with the biennial temporary sculpture installation: the 4 Plinths Sculpture Award. The chosen sculpture will form part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival’s visual arts programme and remain in place outside Te Papa for up to two years.
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March 2014: Melbourne Studio Visits and MONA
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- With much anticipation, the travellers, some bright-eyed, others weary and bleary-eyed, met at Wellington Airport to check-in for a 6.20 a.m. flight to Melbourne. Thus began a wonderful adventure to the art world of Melbourne and Hobart.
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20 Feb 2014: Fourth Four Plinths Sculpture launched
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- Glen Hayward’s Rita Angus grew her own vegetables was launched by the Mayor of Wellington at a function on site by the national museum Te Papa on the evening of 19 February2014 before a crowd of about seventy persons. Other speakers were the Chair of the Wellington Sculpture Trust Sue Elliott, and the sculptor Glen Hayward.
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19 Feb 2014: New Four plinths installation
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- Installation commenced on Monday 17 February 2014 of a dramatic new public art work on Wellington’s Waterfront. Named Rita Angus used to grow her own vegetables, the work comprises four large-scale replicas of shards of pottery found by the artist, the eminent New Zealand sculptor Glen Hayward, while on a residency in the Rita Angus cottage in Thorndon.
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September 16: PARK(ing) Day Friday 20 September
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- PARK(ing) Day, Wellington, is this Friday the 20th September, 8am - 8pm. There will be 18 installations over 23 parks in the central CBD. There are a mixture of PARKs - music, native trees & bird sounds, kinetic machines, recycled and upcycled installs, a Box Office and many more. Have a look at the map below to see where all the PARKs will be located.
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Wellington Park(ing) Day
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- Providing temporary public open space . . . one parking spot at a time. CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST This year the Wellington Sculpture Trust, in association with the Wellington City Council, are organising a Wellington version of PARK(ing) Day and are seeking submissions from people or groups who would like to take over an inner city car park for one day.
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Annual Public Review
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- Tomorrow night, 16 July, we have our annual public review, where we will give an overview of the activities of the Trust from the last year as well as a special presentation by Associate Professor Dr David Cross: SEMI PERMANENT: DOES PUBLIC SCULPTURE HAVE A USE BY DATE?
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June 2013: Glen Hayward selected to make forth iteration of the Four Plinths
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- Glen Hayward selected for the forth round of the Four Plinths Temporary Sculpture project Glen Hayward's Rita Angus used to grow her own vegetables was selected by the Trustees and our Arts Advisors for the fourth iteration of the Four Plinths Temporary Sculpture Project. His work will be unveiled in February 2014 during the International Festival of the Arts and will remain in place for two years. You can view Glen's exhibition I don't want you to worry about me, I have met some Beautiful People in the North gallery of the City Gallery, Wellington at the moment.
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Nga Kina wins people's choice award
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- Nga Kina wins Peoples Choice at the Civic Trust Awards On 21 May at a ceremony at the Wellington City Council chambers Michel Tuffery's Nga Kina won the Art in the City - peoples choice award. Michel, his wife Jayne and their two children were there to collect the award, as well as Sculpture Trust Chair Sue Elliott. The awards were sponsored by the Museum Art Hotel and the owner Chris Parkin announced the winners.
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Woman of Words unveiled
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- Woman of Words unveiled The Katherine Mansfield commemorative sculpture Woman of Words by prominent New Zealand sculptor Virginia King was unveiled by Wellington’s Mayor Her Worship Celia Wade-Brown in an evening function at the site on the Corner of Waring Tayor St and Lambton Quay outside Midland Park.
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Midland Park, Lambton Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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October 2012: Trust’s sculptures valued at $7.5 million
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- Extract from an address to the Joint Annual Dinner of the Karori Rotary and Lions Clubs, 31 October 2012 by Neil Plimmer, Chairman of the Wellington Sculpture Trust. “We get much favourable feedback from the public about the 25 sculptures that we have provided for Wellington over our lifetime, but the proof that holds the most sway is that Wellingtonians keep funding them. We thrive on the support and benefaction of the people of Wellington. “The total cost of the 25 sculptures is $4.5 million which inflation-adjusted yields about $7.5 million. The overwhelming bulk of this is raised privately, from companies, family trusts, individuals, grant-giving bodies and other sources.
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October 2012: Opening of Nga Kina is close
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- Construction of the nine shells that make up Michel Tuffery’s Nga Kina sculpture is at an advanced stage at a specialist Auckland business. If no unforeseen difficulties arise, they should be ready for transportation to their Kumutoto site on Wellington’s waterfront in the first days of November, with the aim of installation for an opening on 14 November 2012.
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October 2012: Visit to Gibbs Farm
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- The outstanding success of the Trust’s visit to Gibbs Farm in early 2011 has led us to arrange a second visit on Friday 22 February 2013. There are major new sculptures installed since the previous visit.
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August 2012: New sculpture commission
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- The Governor-General announced on Friday 17 August that the Wellington Sculpture Trust is working with the TG Macarthy Board of Governors to commission a sculpture to recognise the contribution TG Macarthy has made to the Wellington Region. The sculpture will take pride of place at the bottom of Cuba Street in the vicinity of Bond Street, the Opera House and the Town Hall - all significant landmarks associated with TG Macarthy - and is expected to take between two to three years to commission and complete. There are a number of connections between the selected site and TG Macarthy…
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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July 2012: Trusts Annual Public Review 26 July
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- The Trust’s annual public meeting is being held 6-8 p.m. on Thursday 26 July 2012 at the Spectrum Theatre, BP House, corner of Johnston St and Customhouse Quay. The Trust will outline its work programme and invite discussion from the floor. The guest speaker Michel Tuffery will give an illustrated talk about his current major project for the Trust, Nga Kina, and other aspects of his practice.
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July 2012: Akau Tangi finally completed
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- Phil Dadson’s kinetic sound and light sculpture Akua Tangi, the last of the five Meridian wind sculptures to be installed on Cobham Drive, has been completed with the installation on 22 July 2012 of an 11th pole and cone on the median strip of the roadway. Until now the sculpture had comprised eight poles on the seaward side of Cobham Drive, and two on the landward side. It had always been the artist’s and the Trust’s intention to install another the median strip to link the poles in a continuous sequence, but various cost and traffic safety issues needed to be resolved before this could be done.
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Cobham Drive, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand
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June 2012: McCahon Incarnation decommissioned
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- Regan Gentry’s temporary sculpture McCahon Incarnation, installed on the west wall of City Gallery Wellington (CGW) (see February 2012 news item) has been decommissioned. However it is likely that the work will be re-installed elsewhere in New Zealand, and consideration is also being given to whether it might return to Wellington as a permanent feature of the CGW.
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Wellington City Gallery, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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June 2012: Sculpture Film premiered at Fundraiser
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- The Trust commissioned a 17 minute film from Wellington production house Sauce to celebrate the 25 sculptures that the Trust has commissioned over its 30 years’ lifetime. The film, titled A Lasting Impression, was premiered to high acclaim at a fundraising event held at Park Road Post Production on 7 June 2012.
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February 2012: New work by Regan Gentry
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- Colin McCahon’s famous waterfall paintings are being realised with an 11m high waterfall, McCahon Incarnation by Regan Gentry, installed on the western (city library) end of Wellington’s City Gallery. The work opened on 23 February 2012 as part of City Gallery’s Obstinate Object sculpture exhibition and runs until June 2012. The exhibition coincides with Wellington’s International Arts Festival. McCahon Incarnation is the third work the Wellington Sculpture Trust has commissioned from Regan, others being, Subject to Change (2007) on Karo Drive, and Green Islands, originally on the Plinths and now in the Botanic Garden.
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Wellington City Gallery, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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February 2012: New Four Plinths installation
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- A dramatic new sculpture, the third in the Trusts’s Four Plinth Temporary Sculpture Project, was opened 22 February 2012 by Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown. The artwork, titled Out of the Dusk, is by eminent New Zealand Sculptor Joanna Langford. It comprises four glass cubes, one on each plinth, with interior dioramas of green silage plastic and fine constructed wire objects.
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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Four Plinths sculpture, Round Three
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- The third of Wellington’s Four Plinths Temporary Sculpture Project is to be installed by Wellington artist Joanna Langford, the Wellington Sculpture Trust has announced. Joanna’s work will be placed on the Four Plinths between Te Papa and Circa Theatre in February 2012, in time for the next Arts Festival. Her artwork follows the current pieces on the site Mimetic Brotherhood by Peter Trevelyan and its predecessor Green Islands by Regan Gentry hich is now in the Botanic Garden.
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