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The Governor General of New Zealand, Dame Silvia Cartwright, with Rotarians and guests admiring one of the many and varied contemporary works. |
Among the works selected was Terry Stringer’s Private View, a bronze double image of the Virgin Mary and the child Jesus. Lyndal Jefferies exhibited Cymatic Fountain in which the water danced to low frequency sound; and Graham Bennett erected The Rites of Rights – seven steel towers. David Carson’s Belly Button fashioned from recycled sawmill blades was quickly sold, as was Campbell Maud’s lovely Nikau garden light. Garry Nash, One of New Zealand’s internationally known glass blowers, produced a mound of multi-coloured blown glass stones sprouting beautiful glass flowers, entitled Herbicide Resistant Plants.
Barry Lett’s two metres high Alert Large Dog was easily recognised and Martin Selman’s beautiful Carrara marble work Cloth was much admired.
Website www.shape-shifter.co.nz proved very popular, with more than 8,000 pages downloaded. The website displayed images of many of the works and also photographs of the exhibition grounds and information about the sponsors.
Securing corporate and individual sponsorship was a major part of the project, and the club was well supported by its won members, the local community and national corporates.
Vice Regal patronage
The Governor General of New Zealand Dame Silvia Cartwright, opened the exhibition in the presence of 350 invited guests at the gala opening on a beautiful summer's day. Guests were entertained by Chilton St James College Choir and were served with refreshments as they wandered through the grounds admiring the many and varied contemporary works.
The exhibition opened to the public next day and then continued for eight days. Rotarians and their wives manned the admissions and sales desks and organised parking and security. Nearly 3,000 attended the exhibition, with a number of tour parties coming for escorted tours and teas. \also some of the sponsors held cocktail parties in the evenings.
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The organising committee had planned carefully; and many visitors and sculptors have highly praised the standard of exhibits and the organisation of the exhibition.
Shapeshifter was both an artistic and a financial success.
The club is delighted that its new project raised more than $30,000; and President Glen Evans was able to present cheques of $10,000 each to Te Omanga Hodspice, Riding for the Disabled and The Dowse Foundation.
The club plans to repeat the project in March 2006, again as part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival. |
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Like to mount your own Centenary
or 2005-6
Polio Exhibition?
Thanks to a sponsor, The Ian Potter Foundation, we have a FREE Polio Eradication exhibition CD to give away to Rotary clubs.
Text, photos, stories and
illustrations are the same as those
on show at the Rotary Australia
Centenary Exhibition (RACE),
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
December 2004-thru-February 2005
The CD contains: (ready to print & display)...
• Story text
• Rotary and WHO photos
• Personal stories (+ photos)
• Maps/illustrations
• ‘How-To’ sheet, with exhibition ideas to develop locally
To receive a FREE* copy, email: rowlings@ozemail.com.au
With: FREE RACE CD
in the subject line …and include your name, club name, and club post box/street address in the text area.
We will post the CD, and invoice your club for the disk/postage/handling costs only* (approx $10-15 per club – there’s no other charge).
You can print the text and photos
locally, and mount your own, local Rotary exhibition…as big or as small as you have space for. 
RACE:
official RI-registered Centenary Project
managed by the RC of Canberra Burley Griffin and a ‘national’ committee
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