Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
Richard Wedekind sculptures Buoys - Ideas straining against the tide on the cliff overlooking the Hauraki Gulf.
This is a great place for a sculpture show with the works perched on the cliff edge overlooking the gulf and Rangitoto Island. A huge selection on display including more hilarious oversized work by Christian Nicholson, not as large as his 7 metre tall naked man that featured in 2010 though.
The kids love it, it's like some bizarre adventure playground, and they enjoy checking out the children's works in the old Navy tunnels below. Standout for me is Sacha Nunn's 'Fukushima in the Ocean of Complacency'.
Check it out NZ Sculpture Onshore, Fort Takapuna, Auckland. It's for a great cause and on until this Sunday, the 18th of November.
This is a great place for a sculpture show with the works perched on the cliff edge overlooking the gulf and Rangitoto Island. A huge selection on display including more hilarious oversized work by Christian Nicholson, not as large as his 7 metre tall naked man that featured in 2010 though.
The kids love it, it's like some bizarre adventure playground, and they enjoy checking out the children's works in the old Navy tunnels below. Standout for me is Sacha Nunn's 'Fukushima in the Ocean of Complacency'.
Check it out NZ Sculpture Onshore, Fort Takapuna, Auckland. It's for a great cause and on until this Sunday, the 18th of November.
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