SUMMER: Utopia into Dystopia

01 Dec — 17 Mar 13

Curated by Claire Ulenberg

Lang Ea

Target

Polystyrene with concrete base

White polystyrene with concrete base – 16 sculptures in totalIs New Zealand a Utopia place? most of us cannot imagine our country being a target, a...
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Nick Coldicutt

It hurts to Lye (once and twice); Untitled #1, #2, #3

recycled rimu; polyester

“I find that sculpting is a great way to document how all these different elements are or have effected me and others in the past and present.”
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Lisa Radford and Sam George

Google Flag

Fabric, flag pole

The flag flying over the quarry is printed with the words from many emails sent between Sam and Lisa during the development of a previous project, ...
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Mark Graver

Forty four sounds; Impression

Magnetic text panels; HD video

Please follow the linkForty Four Sounds is a text based, sound collage, film work. The text was arrived at througha random selection of previously ...
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Sam Hamilton

Three Trees Dress up for Halloween; Can't see the Forest for the Guitar

White sheets; electric guitar

Electric GuitarA memorial song sculpture for the tropical hardwood species Swietenia spp and Dalbergia Nigra and all those others who suffer our sh...
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Gaye Jurisich

Sway; Ladder

Cord; flax and no 8 wire

Sway is suspended above the lake creating a fragile, open, bridge like structure across the water. It reflects subtly on the water below. The wind ...
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Andy MacV

Just another morning song

Resin, bird cage

The phrase 'living like a canary in a coal mine' serves as a metaphor for future concerns, as miners used to take a caged canary with them down min...
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Charles Ninow

Municipal Bonds

Electroplated steel

Municipal Bonds uses the language of hard wearing public architecture to promote a discussion about shared space.
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Sacha Nunn

Fukushima in an Ocean of Complacency

Recycled materials, fishing equipment, nylon rope, rubber and plastic floats, steel frame

Recycled materials, fishing equipment nylon rope, rubber and plastic floats, galvanized steel frame Our lives are entwined currents on the Pacifi...
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Charlotte Parallel

Plastipedia

found objects, lots of tinfoil

Plastipedia is a work of accumulated floating plastic islands. It is a direct reference to the plastic trash islands known as the Great Pacific Gar...
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Jo Pervan

Faces

Clay

"Faces" can be made on request, please enquire at artsadmin@sculpturepark.co.nz FacesClay BalanceHinuera Stone & stainless steel pinn...
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Jo Pervan

Flow; balance; Hooked; Boat Bowl; Spiral Vessel

Hinuera Stone

A fascination with people, contrast, shadow and form is evident in the smooth simple lines Jo Pervan strives for. HookedHinuera Stone (+ wood &am...
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Lou Pendergrast-Mathieson and Aja Pendergrast

Birds of a feather

Crystal cast glass

Bird control techniques only work if the birds are interested. The plastic ‘dummy’ owls strategically placed in the trees of Hurstmere Road, Takapu...
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Jocelyn Pratt

Mangrove Ripples; Molten Passion

Maratoto andesite; Taupo scoria

Molten Passion is also seen as symbolic of the Heart of Stone. Sculpted out of volcanic stone that retains heat from the sun and challenges the int...
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Helen Reynolds

White Cloud/ Black Mist

Polystyrene, wood, assorted rubbish, fishing line

Utopia: unattainable (clouds in the sky, soft palaces of pillows) (new products in shiny packaging) Dystopia: brought to earth a cloud becomes mis...
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Donna Sarten

Attitudinal Change

Cell phones and cord

Currently 152,800 care and protection notifications are made to Child, Youth and Family, each year. 418 calls are made each day, and these service...
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The Band: Barak Yahav, Lilach Paul, Koro Puhipuhi

Harmony

Oamaru stone with copper inlay

This sculpture piece was created by THE BAND - a group of three artists: BarakYahav (Israel), Lilach Paul (Israel) and Koro Puhipuhi (Maori), throu...
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Elaine Barry Conway

Icy Beauty overturned

Inkjet print on pvc vinyl, stretched on timber frame

The world is in an increasingly dire situation with industry and deforestation adding to the melting of the diminishing icecaps. Our Antarctic safe...
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Billadonna

Billadonna's Wunderkammer

wire; earth pigment

No matter how tight you pack and label your little boxes, there is still space for magicand THE WORLD STILL DOESN’T MAKE MUCH MORE SENSE
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Phil Bonham

Twig

Clay, steel, epoxy

A small twig inspired the form of this sculpture. Twig feels an existential relationship to the pattern, textures, and forms of the hood...happily ...
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Stuart Bridson

Post industrial imaginary forest

metal, wood, rubber, car paint, wheels- all recycled

The vision of fields of cars, metal and plastic, leftovers from the industrial age, the once utopic dream. These massive forests of rusting steel b...
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Christine Cathie

Pohutukawa leaves

Cast glass

New botanical species are still being discovered – recently a giant variety of the pohutukawa tree (metrosideros excelsa magnus) was found near a g...
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Chris Charteris

Harmony and Chaos

Andesite

In this work the stone is treated as a canvas, using a diamond blade on an angle grinder as paint brush. The lines are spontaneous and quickly cut ...
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Leah Fraser Henderson

Tangata Whenua

Stainless steel

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Jan Gosling

State of Mind

Oamaru stone

Our State of mind is a fragile and beautiful thing which can be destroyed by our own failings – slowly disintegrating making something that has the...
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Brad Lay

Krakenflower

Steel, rope, resin

My work often starts with the ocean, as it is something that I find to be rich in material potential, and somewhat conceptually challenging. I find...
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Faith Tavernor

Fractured Reality; Spatial Dislocation

Mirrored and black acrylic

Fractured Reality and Spatial Dislocation are both created for viewerto explore and enjoy a spatially challenging visual adventure where movement, ...
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Robyn Webster

Out of the Past comes the Future

bronze wire, mono filament, fibre optic filament

From a small distance this work disappears due to its fineness; this embodies its demand for interaction of a personal nature. Behind the work are ...
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