N.Z. sculptors show in U.K.

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33155, 20 February 1973, Page 10

N.Z. sculptors show in U.K.

A sltow opened by six 1 New Zealand artists in! I New Zealand House last 1 > week is expected to . have an impact on Lon- ; don art circles, reports j the London correspon-| , dent of “The Press.” ‘ , i If it will be controversial; for the experts, it certainly: will be startling for the un-L initiated viewer. The works] will be metal, fibreglass, plastic, P.V.A. — even infra-red] elements. Apart from the] ; sculptures, the show will in- • elude the camera art of still ; photographs, a repeating film ' documentary on coal miners, and a live piece, with models I expressing the character of a I ! New Zealand Saturday-night] , country social. > Although two of the artists : are British-born, all six beI gan their art studies in New Zealand, and are now workI ing and exhibiting in Britain. The exhibitors are John ■ Panting, aged 33, who studied . at Canterbury University : School of Art and the Royal : College of Art, London, and : who is now head of the sculp- : ture department of the Cen- . tral School of Art, London; Stephen Furlonger, aged 34, ! Canterbury University School | of Art and Royal College of ] Art, London, who teaches at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry; Boyd Webb, aged 26, Canterbury University School , of Art and now' studying at . the Royal College of Art, Lon- ■ don; Darcy Lange, aged 27, i Auckland University School • of Art, Royal College of Art, • London, now teaching art in I Birmingham; Ken Griffiths, > aged 28, Canterbury Univer- • sity School of Art,, Royal College of Art Photography ' School, London, now a free- ; lance magazine photographer I in Britain; Terry Powell, aged r 29, Auckland University School of Fine Art, Royal

[College of Art. London, now ] a part-time lecturer at the ] Central School of Art, Lon- : don.