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Harbourview Sculpture Trail Attracts Record Numbers
2 April 2014
Harbourview Sculpture Trail Attracts Record Numbers
• Record 13,000 visitors and
sculpture sales
• 5,000 votes for People’s Choice
Award
• Next exhibition March 2016
In only its second season, a record number of visitors took up the opportunity to attend the Harbourview Sculpture Trail during March. Of the fifty-one sculptures on display, more than 22 pieces of artwork sold, including eight recommissions. Prices of works ranged from $95 through to $55,000, with visitors praising the wide variety and range of unique sculptures.
The Harbourview Sculpture Trail, a biennial exhibition of contemporary New Zealand art in Auckland, finished on a high-note at the end of a three week run, on Sunday 30 March.
The Trail displayed pieces by fifty of New Zealand’s most talented, established and emerging artists. Over 13,000 visitors attended the exhibition, located at Harbourview Peoples Park, Te Atatu Peninsula, set around ponds, native flaxes and bush, with a backdrop of spectacular views of the Waitemata Harbour and Auckland City.
Harbourview Sculpture Trail Curator, Sally Lush, said "We were blown away by the record number of visitors, with people thoroughly enjoying the unique experience and discovering this gem of a location, just 15 minutes drive from the city. Sales of sculptures were very pleasing, with over a third of the sculptures sold and many more artists receiving commissions for new works. This is a fantastic achievement for a sculpture show in only its second season.
The exhibition truly reflected the amazing environment of the salt marsh area around Danica Pond on Te Atatu Peninsula with all the sculptures relating beautifully to the flora and fauna, social and political issues pertaining to the area.”
Almost 5,000 votes were counted for a public ‘People’s Choice’ award over the three week exhibition, with winning sculpture Void by Auckland artist Ramon Robertson taking the title for 2014.
The Harbourview Sculpture Trail, is run by the charity Peninsula Arts Inc. Any profits from the event will go towards staging the next exhibition in March 2016, and to set-up a fund to assist artists in West Auckland.
For more information about the Harbourview Sculpture Trail, visit www.harbourviewsculpture.com
Ramon
Robertson
Auckland artist Ramon Robertson has a BA
Honours Degree in Sculpture from Glasgow School of Art and a
MA in Interior Design from Manchester Metropolitan
University and has exhibited widely throughout UK and
NZ.
His artwork engages with aspects of architecture and urbanisation with an observation on mass production and standardization.
Exhibiting Artists
| Artists | Sculpture Title | NZ Address |
| Nicky Adams | Fantail Seat | Tauranga |
| Diane Atkinson | Fade | Kaukapakapa |
| Karin Barr | Treasured Stones | Morrinsville |
| Katherine Batchelor | Wingspan | Warkworth |
| Russell Beck | Continuum | Invercargill |
| Billadonna & Faith Tavernor | Inside the Rabbit Hole | Hamilton |
| Phil Bonham | Waka Gnaru | Auckland (Beach Haven) |
| Jonathan Bowman | Whoa! | Auckland (Papakura) |
| Audrey Boyle | Tangle | Auckland (Avondale) |
| Trish Clarke | Scottish Thistle | Whangarei |
| Matt Cowan | Beacon | Auckland (Howick) |
| Tim Elliot | Dawn Awakening | Auckland (West Harbour) |
| Expressive Art Group | On Angel’s Wings | Auckland (West Auckland) |
| Dawn J Flower | Mast | Auckland (Avondale) |
| Ross Forbes | Encampment | Auckland (Avondale) |
| Anton Forde | Te Atatu Revisted | Waiheke Island |
| Katherine Fraser & Kerry-Ann Stanton | Path of the Pukeko | Auckland (Mt Eden) |
| Bev Goodwin | The Dawn Taniwha | Auckland (Orakei) |
| Carol Green | Harbourview’s Dishes | Auckland (Te Atatu Peninsula) |
| Mia Hamilton | Home Sweet Home | Wellington |
| Cathy Head | Clutter | Auckland (Te Atatu South) |
| Dermot Kelly | Mangroves | Paeroa |
| Doug Kennedy | Dawn | Masterton |
| Phillippa Kenny | Westerlings | Auckland (Sandringham) |
| Juliette Laird | Transplantation | Auckland (Ponsonby) |
| Jay Lloyd | Seagulls | Waiheke Island |
| Aaron McConchie | Untitled 2014 | Auckland (Manukau) |
| Jenny McLeod | Navigation Post | Auckland (Western Heights) |
| Alysn Midgelow-Marsden | Light Dancing | Auckland (Torbay) |
| Sharonagh Montrose | Line Dancing | Waiheke Island |
| Justin Murfitt | Rainforest | Hikurangi (Northland) |
| Zoe Nash | Home | Auckland (Mt Albert) |
| Trevor Nathan | Urban Nature | Rotorua |
| Ainsley O’Connell | From here to there… | Auckland (Mt Eden) |
| Simon Payton | In unity we put our trust | Auckland (Orakei) |
| John Rawson | Turbine Lily | Wellsford |
| Fiona Rennie Schwieters | Attune | Auckland (Grey Lynn) |
| Ramon Robertson | Void | Auckland (Howick) |
| Carol Robinson | Pods | Whangarei |
| Rebecca Rose | Rainbow Ripple Delight | Auckland (Titirangi) |
| Donna Sarten (two pieces) | Feed the Kids; Imp of the perverse | Auckland (Swanson) |
| A.D. Schierning | A Fine Line | Auckland (Pt Chev) |
| Faith Tavernor | Enigma | Ohaupo |
| Jeff Thomson | Wind Drift | Helensville |
| Stuart Thomson | Points of View | Auckland (Pakuranga) |
| Natalie Tozer & John Pryor | Denature, Renature | Auckland (Kingsland) |
| Clovis Viscoe | Cross Fire Cease Fire | Auckland (Mt Eden) |
| Bruce Young | Nga Taonga Toki | Whangarei |
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