Majestic Earth

1997

Neil Dawson

Accessible

Type

  • Sculpture

Medium

  • Metal (unspecified)

Dimensions

  • Diameter approx 5200mm

Neil Dawson, ‘Majestic Earth’ (1997), Majestic Centre, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

Images: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2022

Description

Suspended above the two-storeyed lobby is this floating orb. A delicate silvery envelope encircles a silver sphere: the earth with its cloud cover. NZ is there, but what has happened to Australia? It has giant rents, as if tectonic plates are pulling it apart. Higher up it appears the other continents are in tatters.