Sculptor Overview

 

Bing Dawe

Bing Dawe is one of New Zealand’s most prominent sculptors and has contributed to art education in Canterbury through his role as Programme Co-ordinator of Craft Design at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology.  Throughout his career of more than 20 years Dawe's distinctive sculpture has reflected environmental and political concerns both global and local.  His works are in major collections throughout New Zealand and overseas.  

View Dawe's 2010 exhibition Dowsing & Divining
View Dawe's 2009 exhibition Vagrants Stragglers and the Unloved
View Dawe's 2008 exhibition Roundel inspired by native wrens.
From the Family Galaxiidae (Kokopu)
Stephen's Island Wren
Nesting Grebe - Puteketake, Lake Henrietta
Black-Fronted Terns - Wairau River
Not the Hal-le-lu-jah Bird
Scene Through the Drain
Taking Flight - Sculpture Study, Grebe
Not the Hal-le-lu-jah Bird
Shag River-Study from a series, 'Never Much Loved'
Downstream Under Aoraki - Eel with Shadow
Shag Shoot
Paradise Duck (Male)
Study - Bird with Device
Tern Over the Wairau
Sculpture Study - Stephens Island Wren
From the Series, A Lighthouse Keeper's Cat - Steph
Cut Out - Never much loved black shag at the oxbow
Make Way - Goose Shoot Composition
Make Way: Goose Shoot
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