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Sculptor Neil Dawson — who later created major public art works including The Chalice in Cathedral Square and Ferns in Wellington’s Civic Square — is profiled in this episode from an arts series made for TVNZ (in association with the QE2 Arts Council). Dawson is just as enthusiastic and engaged building a tree house for his son as he is preparing an exhibition of his work. These pieces are small and deceptively simple as they explore texture and optical illusion, but his larger ambitions are also piqued by a space about Auckland’s Victoria Street.

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 Bruce Morrison
 Hamish Keith
 Bruce Adams

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Quotes

In a variety of ways I’m trying to confront the private individual in a public space 
I don’t want to see it before I have to. I’m after an impact. I get that last. A spectator gets that first