Sculpture On The Peninsula 4, 5, 6 November 2011

The Lombardy Charitable Trust will host Sculpture on the Peninsula at Loudon Farm, Teddington, Banks Peninsula over the weekend of the 4, 5, 6, November 2011. Proceeds from the Event will be donated to Cholomondeley Children’s Home in Governors Bay. Cholomondeley provides residential care and schooling to children in crisis. The 2009 event raised $75,000 for Cholomondeley.

History

The Sculpture on the Peninsula (previously known as Sculpture in the Garden) was the vision of the late Geoff Swinard. Geoff gathered a group of friends together with different talents who formed a committee and later the Lombardy Trust to run this event. The 2011 event will be the seventh. The Trust seeks to bring to the public an event that is representive of current art practice in New Zealand. This event would not be possible without the extended support and goodwill of the Sculptors, the Harbour Basin community and our friends. The generous time and efforts of our hosts at Loudon, Sarah Lovell-Smith and Phillip King and our sponsors- Harman Lawyers, Fox and Associates, Urology Associates, Montage Business Intelligence, Underground Coffee Company, The University Bookshop and Wilkie and Bruce Architects.

Sculptors

Five established New Zealand sculptors will be invited as guest exhibitors. An installation grant will be given to each of $1500. It is hoped that the artists will feel encouraged to respond to the peninsula environment either with a site specific work or more generally with a contemporary response to the New Zealand landscape. These works will remain on exhibition at Loudon for one month.

As well as the invited artists we are wanting to represent other sculptors from around New Zealand. Sculptors will be requested to supply photographs or working drawings of the work they intend to exhibit and a panel will select the work from the visual information given.