Henry Moore: Bronze Form		Dimensions: H 4100mm
Sculptor: Henry Moore OMCE				Location: Salamanca Lawn, Botanic Gardens
Materials: Bronze				Date of installation: 1986

Presented to the city by Fletcher Challenge following approaches to the Henry Moore foundation by Wellington Sculpture Trust.

Bronze Form was placed in Midland Park in the centre of the city in 1988, then moved to its present site in 1995.

"Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) was one of the outstanding sculptors of the 20th century. His work has had a strong influence on contemporary figural sculpture.

"The most important and lasting influence on Moore's work was the world of nature. 'The human figure', he wrote, 'is what interests me most deeply, but I have found principles of form and rhythm from the study of natural objects, such as pebbles, rocks, bones, trees, plants.'

"In the early 1980's Moore developed an opened-out three part sculpture, where an interal 'profile form' became the central figure in Figure in a Shelter. He later decided that the Bronze Form of Figure in a Shelter was a piece that could be totally independent and stand in its own right. There were six cast and the one in Wellington is No 4."

Malcolm Woodward, Conservator, Henry Moore Foundation