Tag: sculpture

A city littered with poetry

Now, every­body has seen the poetry which seems to appear just about every­where down near the lagoon and around Te Papa, right?

This one took me by sur­prise though.

It’s Fiona Kid­man, and is in such a com­par­at­ively out-of-the-way place I lit­er­ally stumbled across it.

The full text of the poem is here.

But can you guess where the pic­ture was taken?

Homage to Duchamp

Here’s anoth­er one of the wee guys in this series of tem­por­ary sculp­tures:

Quite an appro­pri­ate loc­a­tion, atop the long-aban­doned toi­lets and amid the con­struc­tion of the new Cour­tenay Place park.

Solace in the Wind – Max Patte

Say hi to my new favour­ite statue.

I edited out his privates.

Sculpture Garden

This is one of my favour­ite places in Wel­ling­ton:

… and if any­one ever tries to do it harm, as I’ve heard rumours of hap­pen­ing in the past, well… they just bet­ter watch out.

Sorry for the crappy photo. Stu­pid phone. Looks like I also man­aged to catch a fly­ing rat in full, uh, flight.

Art-Stalker: Man on a mission

Well, you’d really have to know your way around to guess today’s piece just by the photo here.

One of the things I’ve been enjoy­ing is not hav­ing to wander too far from the apart­ment to find some amazing[ly weird] stuff around for you to look at.

This piece is in Jack Ilott Green. You know, the little garden just off Jer­vois Quay, the one where they’re con­stantly prom­ising to build some­thing use­ful. At the moment it just seems to be a refuge for pot smokers.

OK, since I’m keep­ing you in sus­pense, here’s the side view!

Yeah, the Wel­ling­tonista are think­ing it too. Bloody strange bit of art.

It has this same bias relief on all four sides, and although the entire sculp­ture seems to be get­ting a little knocked about it’s still in good form.

Prob­lem is, no-one is cer­tain what in the heck it’s sup­posed to be. If you have any sug­ges­tions, fell free to leave them in com­ments.

But first! What is it!

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!