Sculpture on the Quad
19 Oct 2018
SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 is underway, which means a stroll through the central city just got a whole lot more interesting. The season showcases works by leading national and international artists, as well as providing a springboard for emerging talent. Once again, College is delighted to throw open its gates and welcome visitors in to see the two works – Plot by Brett Graham, and Mixed Feelings by Tony Cragg – displayed on the Quad.
Plot – a carved marble topographic rendering of the South Island–Te Waipounamu sitting on a sarcophagus-like form – invites us to consider how we think about and value land. Auckland-based sculptor Brett Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura) was interested in how Te Waipounamu was surveyed, divided up and “purchased” from Ngāi Tahu by the settler government.
Mixed Feelings – an immense, 5.5m sculpture, formed by two intertwining bronze towers, pushing together and pulling apart as they spiral upwards – has a sinuous, physical, pulsating form of energy. Throughout his illustrious career, Turner Prize-winning British sculptor Tony Cragg has questioned and tested the limits of a wide variety of traditional sculptural materials – including bronze, steel, glass, wood, and stone – giving the material a dynamic, allowing it to push and move and grow.
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We hope you will take the opportunity to see these and other works in this 20th anniversary SCAPE season.
Brett Graham Plot 2008. Presented for the SCAPE Season 2018. Image courtesy of the artist and Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland. Photo by Heather Milne.
Tony Cragg Mixed Feelings 2012, 550x236x224 bronze. Presented for SCAPE Season 2018. Image courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland. Photo by Heather Milne.
