Outdoor Sculpture by New Zealand Artists
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Steve Rumore Steve Rumore is an artist based in Wanaka, who envisions and designs kinetic sculptures and static steel sculptures. Rumore's impressive recent creation is a piece titled Updraft. This work features a graceful bird which rotates 360 degrees as the breeze dictates, and always points downwind, acting as a weather vane. This perfectly balanced kinetic sculpture is a blend of artistic and engineering skill. Updraft is made from a blend of corten and mild steel, is carefully packed in three simple to assemble pieces and easily transportable to your door. The artist can make this piece with 80cm, 1.5m and 3m wingspan. Price Guide | $6,800 (80cm wingspan), $11,800 (1.5m wingspan), $35,000 (3m wingspan). |
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Anna Korver Taranaki based artist Anna Korver produces sculpture in the mediums of bronze, steel, glass, marble, granite, basalt and timber. Korver's forms are minimalist and display a sense of balance, symmetry and strength, striving to reflect the inner self. Korver has extensive experience in creating outdoor sculptural work, with common motifs including the figure, staircases, the cube, vessels and sections of the landscape. Anna Korver can create a custom commission piece for your outdoor space. Price Guide | $6,000-$20,000 |
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Francia Smeets Francia Smeets creates sculptural glass works suitable for outddor installation. Smeets is drawn to working with glass for its unique ability to express light. Smeets has become well known for her “Waiting” series, which depicts birds poised on timber plinths, reminiscent of a fence post or tree. This series explores the material contrasts between cast glass and found timber. These sculptural assemblages are elegant explorations of New Zealand flora and fauna. Francia Smeets can create a custom commission piece for your outdoor space. Price Guide | $4,500-$6,500 |
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Simon Lewis-Wards Simon Lewis-Wards is an Auckland based artist who makes work with a Pop Kiwiana aesthetic. His work is joyful and humorous, finding its inspiration in nostalgia unique to New Zealand. These large scale (human scale) knucklebones would make for a statement in an outdoor setting. Made of cast aluminum and fabricated to look like the original game we all so enjoyed. These sculptures come alive when stacked or 'spilled' over the landscape and can be jumped and played on. Dimensions 1500 x 1000 x 500mm per knucklebone Price Guide | $16,000-$65,000 (For 1-5 Knucklebones) |
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Jane Downes Jane Downes is a sculptor based in the Banks Peninsula, Canterbury. She specialises in large scale outdoor works made in steel. To create her work, Downes constructs using plasma cutting and forming from sheet steel. Much of her work finds its start point in nature, culture, the domestic and science. As the artist describes, my work "cross[es] the boundaries between human and organic forms, architectural and domestic scales, permanence and the ephemeral." When creating site specific sculptures and installations, Downes explores forms that are structural yet delicate, combining geometric, abstract and natural forms. They are constructed rather than carved using industrial, domestic, recycled and found materials. Price Guide | From $4,000- $12,000 |
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Odelle Morshuis Odelle Morshuis creates figurative sculptures that explore the connection of people to the environment. As the artist describes: "I enjoy the more poetic qualities of our relationship with our surroundings, I see nature as not separate from us but as part of a complex inter-relationship". The sculptures feature silhouettes cut into the patinated material, a technique chosen to create shadows that further populate the sculpture. These sculptures will age, rust and change- as the artist describes the sculptures will "mature and gain a patina....proof I lived". Price Guide | $995-$4,000 |
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