Photoprint for Sale: Pre-Earthquake Statue Of Robert Falcon Scott Of The Antarctic, Christchurch, New Zealand

This is an original photoprint from my personal collection

Size of image is 46cm x 30cm (18" x 12").

Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.

Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.

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New Zealand Odyssey: Tophouse Cottage Mailbox

'New Zealand Odyssey', published in 1989 by Heinemann, was authored by me, Don Donovan (who did the text and illustrations) and Euan Sarginson, who did the photography and design. In this series of blog posts, I will publish some of my drawings.

The New Zealander's capacity to recycle imaginatively was encapsulated in this enchanting mailbox by the roadside at Tophouse on the road to Nelson. 

On a tree stump rests the remains of a 'Diabolo' 50 gallon pump (which in itself is a piece of functional sculpture); on top of that a horizontal oil drum, and beside all a standard US-type mailbox. The word 'MAIL', which indicates that the occupier takes the Nelson Mail newspaper, somehow appears back to front. Don't ask me how or why, I can't remember, I did this drawing in 1988.

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New Zealand Odyssey: Ram's Head, Crown House, The Terrace, Wellington

'New Zealand Odyssey', published in 1989 by Heinemann, was authored by me, Don Donovan (who did the text and illustrations) and Euan Sarginson, who did the photography and design. In this series of blog posts, I will publish some of my drawings.

This is one of many rams' heads carved by Clare Athfield that feature as keystones above the windows of what, in 1987, was Crown House on The Terrace, Wellington. Ordinarily you'd view the building as a whole from across the road but, as I commented in the book, 'the search for detail pays rich rewards'. These sorts of 'grace notes' are rare in modern architecture which is usually designed down to a price. Clare's carvings are not only artistically adept, they also exhibit a nice sense of humour.

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Romancing the Corrugated Iron. 1.

Tirau’s most ambitious iron building; the Wool Gallery

Tirau is a small town in New Zealand’s Waikato area, an ideal point to stop and have a coffee break in a long journey on the main highway. Some time in recent history somebody made a sculpture out of corrugated iron, a material that’s hardly considered in old Europe but which is at the heart of construction in New Zealand. Ever since it was invented, galvanized corrugated iron has formed the walls and roofs of most local buildings – rectangular sheets of it, hundreds of square metres of it, painted or plain, practical, unimaginative, ordinary.

But that somebody who decided to bend the iron not only opened up a whole new world of possibilities, he (she?) also lifted Tirau out of an undifferentiated rut and turned it into the corrugated iron capital of New Zealand – maybe even the world!

Local church sculpture; ‘the Good Shepherd’

Tirau Primary School

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