Sandblasted Panels

1992

Eli Christiansen

Accessible

Type

  • Window(s)

Medium

  • Glass

Dimensions

  • 2 x panels framing the doors to each courtroom (8, 9, 10 and exit), each H1825 x W210mm

Eli Christiansen, ‘Sandblasted Panels’, Entrances to Courtrooms 8, 9, 10 and exit [showing exit], High Court, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Images: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024

1992–Current

Entrance to Courtrooms 8, 9 & 10, First Floor, High Court, 2 Molesworth St, Pipitea, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

Artists
Credit

Collection of Ministry of Justice, Wellington High Court

Associated Artwork Organisation(s)

Description

In 1992 the Department of Justice commissioned four students from Wellington Polytechnic’s Contemporary Māori Design course to provide the designs for glass panelling on the entrances to various courtrooms in Wellington’s new High Court building. The other students were Sheree Pattison; Anthony Pene; and Stephen Pene.

Signage installed with the work reads: “Derived from traditional flax-weaving, the patterns in this work symbolise the weaving together of the different cultures which make up the population of Wellington.”


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