Christchurch-based sculptor Bing Dawe’s work often reflects the delicate state of New Zealand’s native species, forests and waterways.
His sculpture Titipounamu - A Necklace with Lost Gems is being displayed as part of the Sculpture in the Gardens exhibition at the council's Auckland Botanic Gardens.
Titipounamu is part of a long series of Dawe’s past works which come under the collective title A Landscape With Too Many Holes. The work represents a ‘necklace’ where one side shows the delicate rifleman bird and the other side shows the holes left in the landscape by the decline of the species.
Dawe says the sculpture is about “the balance of the negative and positive of things. As we celebrate and appreciate what we have, we must remind ourselves to be ever-vigilant of what we have lost.”
He has exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand and overseas, including all five Sculpture in the Gardens shows.
Sculpture in the Gardens 2015-2016 is on at Auckand Botanic Gardens until 6 March 2016.
