Sculptor Profile

Bing Dawe

Since graduating from the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts in the mid 1970s, Bing Dawe has exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand and overseas. He has held over 40 solo exhibitions including a major survey exhibition at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in 1999. His work is represented in many public and private collections, both in New Zealand and overseas, including public commissions in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Rotorua. For Dawe, art is a vehicle to communicate his wider concerns about political, cultural and environmental issues, often using natural occurrences as a parallel for the human condition.