Che Vincent Kea Wall Hanging

Kea wall hanging sculpture by South Island artist/sculptor Che Vincent. Steel and paua. The kea is a large alpine parrot native to Aotearoa / New Zealand. It is an intelligent, inquisitive and comical creature, notorious for its habit of destroying car windscreen wipers and other exterior fittings.

80 cms width.

ARTIST STATEMENT : I see a lot of beauty in this world. Beauty in the patterns of growth and life and in the mechanisms of survival. Beauty in the forms of function. As a child I immersed myself in the world of meadows and streams that surrounded our house in the Moutere. I was infinitely more interested in my surroundings than a formal education. My art reflects my fascination with the patterns of life, the fractal nature of growth. My desire is to deconstruct and redesign. For me the beauty is in the mechanisms of survival that form the random cohesion that surrounds us. Form and function are inextricably related and could be one word.