Love Me Tender
1994
Llew Summers
Accessible
Type
- Sculpture
Medium
- Concrete
- Paint
Dimensions
- H1560 x W1400 x D950mm

Llew Summers, ‘Love Me Tender’ (1994), Baring Square East, Whakatere Ashburton
Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, Feb 2025





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Description
Love Me Tender was the first artwork acquired by the Ashburton Art Gallery Inc for its collection. It depicts a nude couple, entwined in an embrace.
In 2015 the sculpture was cleaned and repainted with guidance from the artist.
See also:
- John Newton, Llew Summers, Body and Soul (Canterbury University Press: 2020) pp.88-89, 129