WOOD TOTEM CARVING
Shop Centre Decoration “The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND. August 15. Mr John Kingston, the Wanganui-born head of the ceramics department of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, has been commissioned to carve a 750gns wood totem for the new Pakuranga shopping centre.
The commission, by Fletcher Holdings, Ltd., came as a result of a one-man show by Mr Kingston in the Ikon gallery in Auckland in July last year.
The centre is due to open on September 23. The figure will be 27 feet high, will weigh about six tons and will be made from totara.
It will be treated with sharks’ liver oil and red iron oxide.
Mr Kingston will work mainly with a chainsaw and axe.
He said spectators would be welcome and interested art students might help him. He will start work on Monday. Mr Kingston said he felt there was a future for his kind of work in New Zealand but it would take time to develop. In America, he said, it was common practice for building contractors to set aside 2 per cent of the cost for art decoration.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30830, 16 August 1965, Page 14
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