Tag: public art

Random Art Story, Two

Next in our series of over­looked Wel­ling­ton pub­lic art is this beauty here to the right.

If you’ve not seen it before I’d be extremely sur­prised, because it’s plonked pretty much squarely oppos­ite the Lido, some­where seem­ing to always be awash with punters tip­ping the usu­al vari­ety of liquids and solids into them­selves.

As you can see, it’s a great piece, bronze, and tex­tured in a mar­velously subtle way. The slightly abstract lines just make it all the more curi­ous to look at, and the com­plete absence of nose-hair sug­gests the mod­el was extremely well-kempt.

So… what is it?

These are the fixtures of your neighbourhood

One of the things about liv­ing in a great city like Wel­ling­ton is that there are a hell of a lot of things to take for gran­ted.

I men­tion this because while listen­ing to Don McGlashan in Civic Square the oth­er day he men­tioned that Auck­land does­n’t really have any civic art. I’m not sure that’s entirely true… But, in the spir­it of paro­chi­al one-upman­ship I thought I’d bring you some of Wel­ling­ton’s oft-over­looked art and sculp­ture.

Why oft-over­looked? Well, we have the Wel­ling­ton Sculp­ture Trust and its glam­our­puss art all over the blim­min place, but there’s also a lot of smal­ler, less noticed stuff that we here at the Wel­ling­tonista want to cel­eb­rate.

So with no fur­ther ado, here is a sculp­ture. And ain’t it a little cutie?

The real ques­tion is of course wheth­er you recog­nise it. And you prob­ably don’t. This of course being the prob­lem with a place like Wel­ling­ton, some­times there’s so much bloody pub­lic art you can­’t walk three feet without trip­ping over the latest “abstract some­thing”…

But I digress. So what is it?! More after the jump!

Now you see it.…

Remem­ber a few months back that the city coun­cil was wor­ried that someone might steal the 2.5 tonne Henry Moore statue that sits at the edge of the Botan­ic Gar­dens near Sala­manca Road?

I mean, since they planted the idea the Wel­ling­tonista crew did band togeth­er & steal it for our foy­er one night. But in the morn­ing we regret­ted it & snuck it back before any­one noticed.

Any­way, I’m not sure what is hap­pen­ing here… either the coun­cil has decided to dis­guise the statue from pro­spect­ive thieves…. Or it rep­res­ents a new work of art in itself. Per­haps by Christo?