This week is special for Auckland. On Friday the bi-annual Sculpture in the Gulf exhibition. Imagine a beautiful Island in the Waitemata harbour [the same one Guardian travel writer, Simon Millar fell in love with]. Then picture this beautiful parkland skirted round the shore line. Enter Waiheke Community Art Gallery, and you have a biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition placed on a two kilometre long public walkway at Matiatia Harbour, the gateway to Waiheke Island, Waitemata, New Zealand.
A total of 27 artists are selected from an anonomous pool of entrants. Then the works are placed aroud the park - each one a living integration with the landscape it inhabits. It is a stunning concept. It begins on Friday, 26 January and runs to 11th February 2007.
The image is from the web site, and shows my favourite from the 2005 exhibition from Sean Burke. The red balls float above the earth, sea and sky, caught by the thermals, weaving in an out in their own kinetic dance. It was stunning.
See the web site
A total of 27 artists are selected from an anonomous pool of entrants. Then the works are placed aroud the park - each one a living integration with the landscape it inhabits. It is a stunning concept. It begins on Friday, 26 January and runs to 11th February 2007.
The image is from the web site, and shows my favourite from the 2005 exhibition from Sean Burke. The red balls float above the earth, sea and sky, caught by the thermals, weaving in an out in their own kinetic dance. It was stunning.
See the web site
1 comments:
Hi Paul,
You may be interested to know that there is now a blog dedicated to the 2009 Sculpture on the Gulf exhibition.
http://blog.sculptureonthegulf.co.nz
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