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Journal

Nature and Us – a BBC2 TV series

We were recently filmed by BBC2 for inclusion in a three part TV series titled Nature and Us , A History through Art, presented by the eminent art historian James Fox.

We chose to make an ephemeral sculpture on Albert Burn Saddle near Mt Aspiring which we knew would provide an awe-inspiring visual landscape…

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2021
Tipping points

At this moment in time the world seems to be reaching tipping points within natural systems, climate, and societies. As the world becomes more dangerous and unliveable for many, G7 leaders are meeting in UK to plan actions that could tip the world towards a safer sustainable future, or hold us on the old path leading toward climate and social disaster…

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Life force

I have been processing events in the world, as has everyone. For the past few months I have found it difficult to post anything. We are lucky that in New Zealand the government’s Covid response was swift and decisive…

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2020
Fine Line connected at last

n October in spite of three days’ of continual storms Philippa and I with our longtime friends Len Gillman, Lea Wilson and David Newstead made the final sculpture on our Fine Line project on Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand’s Tongariro National Park. Huge lenticular clouds driven by the storms rose over the Pinnacles and Mt Ngauruhoe was barely visible until late in the afternoon…

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Truth well told

At last a young leader who tells it like it is - Greta Thunberg. For the last thee decades the world has watched as political leaders have tiptoed round the edges of the world’s climate crisis caused mainly by global carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels…

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2019
Circle of Life - sculpture commission

For a sculpture commissioned by a family in Wanaka blackened kanuka trees stand supporting a steel circle. The sculpture is designed to evoke a harmonious relationship between human systems and nature. In nature the circle is sacrosanct. Everything that lives must die, everything that eats is eaten…

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2018
Nature's design in Polis

This month Polis magazine Germany invited presented our environmental sculptures and invited me to write about my design philosophy for their international publication…

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2018
Exposure in Europe

Opening a lens to our ideas creates an exposure. The digital revolution has meant that lens-based artists can expose their work to an ever widening audience around the world…

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2018
Being in our our backyard

Perfect weather in Mt Aspiring National Park made for a delightful relaxing walk to camp in the bush clad Matukituki River valley. It is great to see that vegetation and native bird life is being protected by an extensive pest eradication programme managed by the Department of Conservation and many volunteers…

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