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Eel Man
The references are restorative, the act of restocking and
replenishing that which is fragile and timeless. The
eel could be described as a conduit between people
and the natural world. The physical and metaphorical
journey it signals traces a passage inward and
outward, to the hinterland and to the remote reaches
of the ocean."
"New Zealand art's residential cultural carpenter,"
according to art critic Justin Paton. "Walk
into a gallery filled with Warren Viscoe's sculptures
and you enter a working forest, a structure of
structures, a mediation on landscape and memory that
is told in planks and branches and wire and know-how."
Born in Auckland in 1935, Viscoe trained as a builder
before heading off to study art in London, Toronto
and Auckland. He returned to Auckland in 1962 with his
wife Pierrette and two sons.
In the last 30 years he has worked as a teacher, jeweller,
toymaker, interior designer and builder. Throughout
this time he has held numerous solo exhibitions
and his sculptures are in many New Zealand art collections,
including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,
Auckland City Art Gallery, Dowse Art Museum, Wallace
Arts Trust and the Unitec Institute of Technology.
In the last few years Waitakere City has commissioned
many local artists to help create unique public
spaces that forge a relationship with the land and the
people of Waitakere City. These are three of the many
other works you may like to visit.
How to get there
The Eelman can be found on <http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/cnlser/pbr/walks/paremuka.asp>
Paremuka Lakeside Reserve. Head towards Swanson Drive
along Metcalfe Rd, turn into Munroe Rd, then Charlene
Close or arrive via Hillwell Drive, off Harvest Drive
from Sturges Road.
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