2023 Waiheke Small Sculpture Award

Title: Seaview Apartments. Homes for the displaced.

Materials: Found wood and objects from Hawke’s Bay coastline.

245mm h x 155mm w x 155mm d

Having been displaced from my studio following severe flooding in Cyclone Gabrielle I made these works from a temporary studio in a friends garage from materials that I had collected from local beaches in Hawke’s Bay before the cyclone.  By adding a resin component with coastal fauna and other man made objects found on the coast, into these structures, these works also invite consideration on human impacts and how climate events are destroying ecosystems and displacing all creatures.