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on last year’s winning sculpture Haast Eagle — Pouakai. “My neighbour Ben came up with the eagle idea,” said Terry. “Then I thought, what angle am I going to make it from.” Terry said deciding on the angle is the starting point. “You have to be careful how you present it.” Visits to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington to study the Haast Eagle followed. The Haast Eagle is extinct and lived around the time of the moa. Terry estimates spending as much time thinking about and researching the eagle as he did sculpting it. “Attention to detail makes a good sculpture,” he said. His Haast Eagle sculpture was created with shearing cutters, horseshoes and old tools. Terry was born and bred in Feilding. He and his wife Shirley moved to Kimbolton 28 years ago, and have owned the Kimbolton Garage since 1990. The local community supports Terry through dropping off materials for him to use in his sculptures. A busload of Australian tourists also called in to view his Haast Eagle sculpture. The tourists mentioned that Terry’s sculpture would be up amongst the best at the rural sculpture festival in the New South Wales town of Lockhart. The Kimbolton Sculpture Festival is based on the Spirit of the Land Lockhart Festival, which attracts thousands of people to the four-day event. Kimbolton Arts and Sculpture Trust chairman Tony Waugh said the festival is an opportunity for rural people to have a go, as many may not have considered themselves artists. Last year’s festival saw the number eight wire mentality come out in force in the shape of more than 100 entries from Timaru in the south to Kaeo in the north and everywhere in between. Artists conveyed to festival organisers and judges how entering the awards had given them the opportunity to express their passion for art, and to showcase making something out of nothing. Terry acknowledged the work of the other entrants in last year’s festival.
“I would like to pay particular tribute to the People’s Choice Winner with the horse. It had real attention to detail,” he said. The People’s Choice Winner was Regan Cooper with his sculpture, Tyrone the Retyred Horse. This life-sized black horse was made with tyres. There are plans for Terry’s Haast Eagle to be displayed for public viewing in an area across the road from Kimbolton Garage. Tony said he wants to see farmers and others who live on the land, try their
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The Kimbolton Sculpture Festival, with a prize pool of $15,000, will be held on Saturday, April 6 2019. Visit ruralart.co.nz to enter. Festival organisers have launched a campaign to raise $5,000 through the crowdfunding website boosted.org.nz/projects/ kimbolton-sculpture-festival.
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