Stretcher to Te Pahi

1986

Chris Booth

Accessible

Type

  • Sculpture
  • Installation

Medium

  • Bronze
  • Stone
  • Wood

Dimensions

  • H260 x W4600 x D1400mm

Chris Booth, ‘Stretcher to Te Pahi’ (1986), Information Services Building, Main Campus, University of Otago, North Dunedin, Ōtepoti Dunedin

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

1986–Current

Eastern end of the ground floor foyer of the Information Services Building (near 640 Cumberland St), University of Otago, Main Campus, North Dunedin, Ōtepoti Dunedin

Artists
Credit

Frances Hodgkins Fellowship Trust collection at the University of Otago

Associated Artwork Organisation(s)

Description

"This is part of a series where Booth experimented with pouring the bronze 'free-form' onto sand, i.e. without using a closed mould. He has used whale harpoons, marlin spikes, shells and kete to make impressions."

Listed in Ali Bramwell et al. Otago Sculpture Trails : University Walk. Otago Sculpture Trust 2003.

Booth used kanuka wood and basalt boulders as raw or only lightly dressed materials in this work giving an 'as found' quality to the composition.