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Bronze Form
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

Salamanca Lawn, Botanic Gardens
 


Four Plinths Temporary Sculpture Project: Regan Gentry - Green Islands
Leon van den Eijkel in collaboration with Allan Brown: Urban Forest
Louise Purvis: Seismic
Cathryn Monro: Per Capita
Bill Culbert: SkyBlues
Len Lye: Water Whirler
Andrew Drummond: Tower of Light
Phil Price: Zephyrometer
Anton Parsons: Invisible City
Jeff Thomson: Shells
Robert Jahnke: Spinning Top
Phil Price: Protoplasm
Kon Dimopoulos: Pacific Grass
Brett Graham: Kaiwhakatere - The Navigator
Denis O\'Connor: Rudderstone
Mary-Louise Browne: Body To Soul
Chris Booth: Peacemaker
Andrew Drummond: Listening & Viewing Device
Henry Moore: Bronze Form
Neil Dawson: Ferns
Tanya Ashken: Albatross
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