Four Shapes for Four Spaces
- Documentary
This National Film Unit production records the making of four large-scale sculptures for a 1971 international symposium to commemorate Auckland City’s centennial. Helen Escobedo (Mexico) nodded to the skyline’s masts and cranes with Signals in Parnell Rose Garden; Opened Stone by Hiroaki Ueda (Japan) was balanced near Auckland Art Gallery for 35 years; and American Fred Loopstra's Homage to Will still ploughs Victoria Park. A central city scrap metal work by Canadian Tom Burrows was removed in 1977, perhaps achieving his stated aim: to “disturb” its viewers!
Website for Canadian sculptor Tom Burrows
Guardian obituary of Helen Escobedo (mentioning her NZ sculpture Signals), October 2010
American article on Fred Loopstra's sculpture Homage to Will, Eugene Register-Guard, October 1971
NZ Herald info on relocating Hiroaki Ueda's sculpture Opened Stone, November 2015











