Christchurch Man Wins Sculpture Competition

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32351, 17 July 1970, Page 7

Christchurch Man Wins Sculpture Competition

A Christchurch sculptor and lecturer in fine arts at the University of Canterbury, Mr T. J. Taylor, has won a competition to find a suitable piece of sculpture to be placed in the forecourt of the new 13-storey IBM office building in The Terrace, Wellington. Mr G. Ngan, of Wellington, has gained second place. Four other leading scluptors who were invited to supply marquets of the designs they envisaged for the area wqre Messrs T. Coleing (Sydney), L. Parr and C. E. Dennis (Melbourne), and J. Panting (formerly of Auckland, but now in the United Kingdom). The sculpture will forrp part of a group of art objects In the new building.

The A.M.P. Society, which owns the building, has asked Mr J. Drawbridge to prepare a painting to be hung in the foyer, with a group of four hand-sewn leather chairs, and a glass-slab table set on a hand-woven carpet made by Joan Calvert. The judges’ report, presented by the director of the National Art Gallery (Mr M. Day), said that Mr Taylor’s work emphasised a lateral quality and would create the most interesting optical tensions when seen on the site. “Its asymetrical balance plus its bulk, balanced pivotal fashion, creates ai powerful, dynamic quality which implies the very essence of the building complex.” the report Mid.