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Wellington Sculpture Trust / July 2012

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

August 2012 | June 2012
    • July 2012: Akau Tangi finally completed
      • 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