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.
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.
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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