Gypsy Fair Anderson Park
Ahuriri
New Zealand
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Photo Taken Clive Square Napier New Zealand.
The mallard is considered an invasive species in Australia and New Zealand, where it competes with the Pacific black duck which was over-hunted in the past.
Here, and elsewhere, mallards are spreading with increasing urbanization and hybridizing with local relatives.
MTG Hawke's Bay Museum
Ahuriri / Aotearoa
Napier / New Zealand
Pin Wall is a collaborative public artwork created by Sara Hughes and Gregor Kregar. The work takes the form of a brightly coloured oversized pin cushion; created from 5000 porcelain glazed balls that project out from the building on stainless steel rods.
The artists spent considerable time researching the MTG collection and wanted to create a work that responded to objects within it. They were particularly influenced by a group of 19th Century pin cushion and the Avis Higgs fabric design archive. “A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together which we think creates a fitting metaphor for the Museum.” The differing lengths of stainless steel rod give a three dimensional effect to the work. The porcelain pin heads pop out from the side of the building creating movement across its surface as the work responds to the changing weather conditions.
Make sure you view it from a range of locations to get the full effect. This public art work has been commission by the MTG and Napier City Council and is the largest art work created from porcelain in New Zealand.
William Robert Blythe Fountain.
Founder of the drapery firm Blythe & Co, Napier. Born in Galloway, Scotland,
Arriving in New Zealand in 1870 and joined the firm of Newton & Co, and by 1874 had started business on his own account.
In 1874 he married his first cousin Fanny Maria Robinson (1852-1896). The couple had 3 sons and 3 daughters.
By 1888 he was a Justice of the Peace, a magistrate, and Honorary Major (Volunteers). Author of `A Scheme for the extension and improvement of the present harbour works and a new harbour and breakwater at Napier', 1882.
He died in Sydney on 7 Dec 1903 and is buried in Old Napier Cemetery.