Sculptures inspire creative messages

The Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens has been busy over the holidays, asking visitors to record their impressions of the latest exhibition.

Curator Sally Lush says there have been some amazing entries, with people choosing very individual ways to express themselves.

“Some people are drawing pictures, while others have written short stories or left a photograph as a memento,” she says. “People are engaging with the project and responding to the exhibition in very creative ways.

“One person has written a poem but presented it in an unfolding spiral format and someone else has done beautiful drawings of fern leaves, peaches on the tree and a spiders web, all unsung works along the trail.”

Sally says the messages can be left at the gardens while visiting or emailed at a later date.

All the contributions will be sorted and the best will be published in a book.

Published messages will earn the author a free annual pass to the Sculpture Gardens.

The recently opened Exhibition 2012 features 63 selected contemporary sculptures, set along a one kilometre trail that winds through various examples of iconic New Zealand landscape.

Artists work featured in Exhibition 2012 include Barry Lett, David Carson, Llew Summers, Ray Haydon, Anna Korver, Christian Nicolson, John Rawson, Trish Dickinson, Jonathan Bowman, Vincent Kobylarz, Darryl Fagence, Gaye Jurisich, Jin Ling, Rose Petterson, Sally Lush, Richard Sparke and Trish Clarke.

Pictured: Richard Sparkes’ Tetrahedra sculpture frames visitors at the park.