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| STYLE: Sculpture |
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Carin Wilson attended Victoria University and Canterbury University gaining an Art and Design qualification. Since then he has exhibited sculpture extensively throughout New Zealand and also pursued furniture design.
Carin Wilson’s heritage is a strong driving force behind his sculpture. The materials he works with, the titles of his work and their construction are all means he uses to illustrate his political standpoint.
The supplejack used in several of his works symbolises the feeling of entrapment of the Ngati Awa people but it also pays respect to the skills of Wilson’s forebears to utilise the materials of their environment, which could at times be somewhat unyielding.
‘The earliest visual images in the culture of New Zealand are the rock drawings of the founding Waitaha tribes of Te Wai Pounamu, the South Island. These archetypal impressions are among the first ever recorded in this land. They are tapu, precious, and of inestimable importance. They are inextricably linked to other elusive notion – of place, identity.’
Carin Wilson has exhibited his work in Japan as well as New Zealand and can be found in several private collections throughout New Zealand.
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| Past Exhibitions |
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| Nga Tohu Kiwaha: The Marks |
| Ko Waihotia e la He Tohu Whenua |
| A Model Assembly |
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| Works on Paper |
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| Publications |
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| The Politics of Constraint - Carin Wilson |
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