Dunedin City Council

Dunedin Public Libraries

Arthur Barnett Ltd

In Civic Plaza outside Dunedin City Library, CBD, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Kinetic Wind Sculpture

Derek Ball, ‘Kinetic Sculpture’ (1982), Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin Central, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Images: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021

Stephenson & Turner

Hallam Eames and Partners Quantity Surveyors

Bricknell Moss and Partners Structural Engineers

Dunedin Hospital

Healthcare Otago Charitable Trust

Main foyer of Dunedin Hospital (201 Great King St), Dunedin Central, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Kinetic Sculpture

Derek Ball was born in Masterton and studied at the University of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1966. He was recipient of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of Otago in 1968. It is here that Ball began his explorations in plastic resins. 

Ball travelled to the UK and later to California where he completed an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. Returning to Aotearoa, Ball took up a teaching position at the Dunedin School of Art from 1978 to 2002. 

Ball's art is recognised for its experimentation with plastics, a substance which is both ubiquitous and reified, futuristic and now somewhat archaic. Expressing it's ability to transform and mutate, plastic appears as the perfect contemporary medium. 

~ details cited from Henry Davidson, curator of  

: High-Tech Fantasy, 16 November 2013 - 26 January 2014.

'Nelson artist's 60 year wait to see painting.' 

Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021