Neil Dawson

Floating Horizons, 1994

Painted Steel

Chalice, 2001

Painted Steel

Neil Dawson is a prominent sculpture from New Zealand dealing mostly with environmental issues and global concerns with large scale, site spastic work. Many sculptures are on display in public sites, such as at the entrance to the Olympics, held in Australia in 2000.

I absolutely love Neil's work that is suspended. He often thinks of the sky as his canvas. I feel that the intricacies of his laser cut sculptures, mirror the intricacy of our environment and the delicate state that it's in.

An interesting aspect about Neil's art is the way it incorporates the world around, into the entire experience. It becomes about more than the sculpture itself because you can't view it, without seeing the surrounding environment. It's a very interesting way to make the viewer contemplate global issues.



"one gets to know each in glances’ and ‘when people describe my work, they describe the day – they think of the whole experience...not just the object"

Neil Dawson

Ferns, 1998

Coated aluminum, suspended on stainless steel wires