Where the work lives
Public ground
The work is made for open, public ground across New Zealand: reserves and riverside walkways, the edges of parks, the quiet corners of civic spaces. A piece is made for its place, so the place is where the thinking starts.
Reserves, riverbanks and civic space
Made for its site
A public work is seen from every side, in every season, by people who never chose to look at it. So a site is read before a form is drawn: how people arrive and leave, where they slow down, what the light does through the day, what is already there. The materials follow the ground. Concrete for a cast disc set flush into a reserve, steel for a walkway or a cut ring, stone left to wear smooth where hands will find it.
If you are working on a reserve, a riverside path, a school ground or a civic space anywhere in New Zealand, the first step is a look at the ground itself.
Have a stretch of ground in mind?
Tell me about the site and what it is for. Some works belong; some do not, and it is worth knowing early either way.