Farmers can win big prizes at Kimbolton Sculpture Festival

Garden tools and kiwi ingenuity will be in play at the Kimbolton Sculpture Festival. Photo / 123RF

Armed with pliers, jigsaws, drills, tail paint cans, and mini diggers farmers can get creative and build a sculpture and nab a $500 cash prize.

Multiple teams will face-off against each other as part of the inaugural Kimbolton Sculpture Festival in northern Manawatu on April 28.

"The event will pitch farmers against each other in 60-minute individual and team challenges," said festival spokesman Tony Waugh.

"The aim is to be both quick and creative."

The festival's designed to get farmers unleashing their creative flair.

"The Great Young Farmers Clubs 'Art in Action' Challenge, which starts at 10am, will be one of the highlights," he said.

The main attraction of the festival is a new rural sculpture award, with entries being sought from across New Zealand.

"We're asking farmers to sculpt something from natural materials and anything they can upcycle from around a farm," he said.

"It could be fence battens, machinery parts, bailing twine or old drench containers."
An overall prize pool of $11,000 is on offer.

"Hopefully the prize money will inspire people to move a bit of gear around their sheds and get their creative juices flowing," Tony said.

Entries close on April 25.

For more information visit www.ruralart.nz.