A little late to the party but still some­thing rather delight­ful has popped up in the city.  Cleave (a pro­ject between artist Gabby O’Con­nor, ocean­o­graph­er Craig Stevens, cur­at­or Kath­ar­ine Allard and the amaz­ing kids from Miramar Cent­ral school) is liv­ing at 86 Vic­tor­ia St Wel­ling­ton until July 13 2013. It’s view­able 24/7 as it’s all intern­ally lit.

cleave

Cleave is sup­por­ted by Urb­an Dream Broker­age who are all about brin­ing prop­erty own­ers and artists togeth­er to make empty spaces in our city a little more inter­est­ing, like People’s Cinema. This new work acts as a pre­quel to Gabby’s recent series of ice­berg sculp­tures like ‘What Lies Beneath’ shown at the City Gal­lery, in 2011.

if you can­’t make it do Check out the install­a­tion as a time-lapse. But do pop on by it is simply magic­al.

cleave install timelapse from Gabby O’Con­nor on Vimeo.

July 5- 13 2013.
86 Vic­tor­ia Street Wel­ling­ton, NZ

Is any­one else with me in think­ing Gabby would be an ideal can­did­ate to go to ant­arc­tica as an artist?