Wellington Sculpture Trust and Places
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October 2012: Opening of Nga Kina is close
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- 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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August 2012: New sculpture commission
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- 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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Four Plinths sculpture, Round Three
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- 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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A Fabulous New Sculpture for Waterfront.
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- The Trust is pleased to announce that it is advancing arrangements for the sculpture Nga Kina by Michel Tuffery to be installed on the Kumutoto feature of Wellington's Waterfront. The Trust's Chairman, Neil Plimmer, says it is the right art work on the right site. “The initial public response has been fabulous. The work will transform and strengthen the appeal of this northern part of the waterfront.
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Launch Of Wellington Urban Forest
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- Wellington Urban Forest by Leon ven den Eijkel and Allan Brown was unveilied on May 10th, 5.30pm on Cobham Drive. This is the fourth Meridian Energy Wind Sculpture along Cobham Drive, located between Zephyrometer and Tower of Light.
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Creative Forest grows on Cobham Drive...
- Wellington Sculpture Trust
- The fourth major wind sculpture in a series that will define the southern gateway route into the city is being installed on Cobham Drive. The three nine-meter high stacks of bright spinning cubes named Wellington Urban Forest are the creation of a two-year collaboration between former Wellington sculptor Leon van den Eijkel and Hutt Valley engineer Allan Brown of Metallion Ltd.
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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