Sculptor Profile

 

Regan Gentry

For the past decade, Regan Gentry has used sculpture as a means to visually articulate his thoughts and interests. Born, raised and educated in Hawkes Bay, Gentry spent time as a busker before eventually enrolling at art school in Dunedin. Here he was drawn to sculptural practice which has kept him challenged and focused ever since. Gentry’s work examines society’s communal interactions with its immediate environments. Chance situations and circumstance inspire and drive his ideas, and he continually explores new forms and styles to express this; “it helps keep the challenge vigorous.” Gentry’s recent public commission for Christchurch’s High Street, Flour Power, typifies the humorous observations that recur in his work: a bunch of lamp-posts bound together as an equivalent to the wheat sheaves that formerly lined the streets of Christchurch.