Wood Sculpture Live starts soon

Raw wood to finished art in 10 days. This is the challenge facing 30 sculptors at Lake House Arts Centre. Between Thursday 16 and Saturday 25 April, the artists will use chain saws, axes, chisels and sanders to produce spectacular art works from tree trunks and branches. Due to popular demand and the stress placed on artists to complete their work the carving component of the event has been lengthened to 10 days.

Lake House Arts Centre runs these events every two years. The wood comes from trees felled during road works and from other construction or building sites and is stockpiled to dry in the garden of the Arts Centre on Barry’s Point Reserve, Takapuna.

The public is invited and welcome to come and see the sculptors at work in the gardens that surround the 110 year old Lake House. Each day between 9am and 5pm artists will be working to meet the deadline to finish their work. Watching the work progress from its raw state to finished art is fascinating.

The completed sculptures will be judged on Sunday 26 April by invited guest artist Chris Charteris. The exhibition will be officially opened at 3pm that day, when all the works will be for sale. An exhibition in Main Lake House Gallery of smaller sculptures by the participating artists will take place during the carving week, and continue to 13 May, while the major outdoor exhibition remains in the Lake House Grounds until the end of May.

Artists this year include John Fergusson, Christian Nicholson, Tui Hobson, Pamela Howard-Smith, Joe Kemp and Pita Rua Lagan to mention a few.

For more information about this event please contact the Event Coordinator, Kim Boyd on 09 4220456, or email manager@lakehousearts.org.nz.

Visit the website: www.lakehousearts.org.nz