Sculptor's works take seat at top table

BIG HIT: Taurus was constructed from steel and polyester webbing.

Keryn Whitney and Paddy Cooper were the big winners at the recent Sculpture in the Daffodils exhibition at Taniwha Station in Central Hawke's Bay.

Art adviser, curator and former gallery owner Judith Anderson judged Raukawa artist Whitney's adult see saw Taurus, constructed from steel and polyester webbing, and Perpetuality, made from recycled chairs, as the joint winner of this year's BESeated competition. She received a $1000 cheque from principal sponsor AMP Walker Mackie.

Taurus was also a hit with visitors to the exhibition, earning Whitney the People's Choice Award and a further $750 from DAC Legal.

Bay View-based Cooper's Woodhenge, crafted from recycled pieces of an old wharf from Ahuriri destroyed in the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, with a gastropod mollusk fossil inlay from the Mohaka river, was runner-up. He received $500 cash from Bayleys Waipukurau.

Woodhenge, by Paddy Cooper.

Taniwha Station is a working farm of which about 9ha has been landscaped and planted in daffodils. It opens to the public each September, selling the flowers as a fundraiser for the CHB Plunket Society, and every two years, hosts an outdoors sculpture exhibition. Most artists came from Hawke's Bay and the Wairarapa.

BIG HIT: Taurus was constructed from steel and polyester webbing.