Yvonne Rust & Barbara Packwood, Untitled [Waipā District War Memorial Park] (1955), Te Awamutu

Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, Sept 2023.

Waipā District Council

Waipā District War Memorial Park, 659 Mutu St, Te Awamutu

Untitled [Waipā District War Memorial Park]

Barbara Packwood was an Auckland-based artist. She held a Fine Arts diploma in sculpture from the Canterbury College School of Art, a rarity for females at the time, and later taught art at Auckland Girls Grammar School. She was actively exhibiting in the 1950s.

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Yvonne Rust & Barbara Packwood, Untitled (Memorial Park),(1955), Te Awamutu