Artist Statement

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In my sculpture trees are symbols for the ancient, the store of wisdom: the time before any of us came to this place.  We are all travellers - we started out about the same time from Africa and have variously arrived here.  With rich tales of our journeys between.  

 

I am interested in finding the universality in these tales, which come to us from many times and many cultures.  I work with dreams and folk tales, with steel and aluminium, with timber, fine metal leaf and with coloured glazes.  My birds - are they my whimsical, chattering narrators?

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e: john@johneaglen.co.nz

t: +64 21 930470