The recipients of this year's NBR Sponsorship Awards include Meridian Energy, with the Wellington Sculpture Trust, for a suite of wind sculptures located along Evan's Bay close to Wellington airport. The sculptures combine public art with a celebration of Wellington's best-known natural characteristic (the wind), bringing together notions of wind power in New Zealand's energy future and the creative use of wind.
The suite of sculptures includes Phil Dadson's Akau Tangi. The title (the Maori name for Evan's Bay) references the lamenting sounds of the wind in the bay, which is reputed to be one of New Zealand's windiest locations.
Images: Phil Dadson, Akau Tangi (2010) installation views, ten poles ranging between 6 to 6.8m, aluminium, stainless steel, black steel, LED lights and paint
