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Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia Project and Gunditjmara/Kirrae Wurrong elder, Banjo Clarke. Bronze Plaque Message: “Tuuram Cairn was created to encourage remembrance of the recent suffering of this land and its Indigenous Peoples and to engender a sense of healing and a sensitive and wise outlook for the future.”

Botanic Gardens, Christchurch, New Zealand Since European settlers cleared the land, the nikau palms which used to grow here have largely disappeared. However, in the Botanic Gardens nikau were planted alongside this sculpture. The fronds of the nikau emerge from great bowl-like stems, which eventually become homes for all kinds of creatures on the forest

Grizedale, England Created in response to the large aquatic birds that inhabit the tarn below the sculpture site, this work also acknowledges the stratified slate tor from which it protrudes.

Earth Sky Strata, 1994 Auckland, New Zealand The underlying structure of the organically farmed land this sculpture sits on is stratified sandstone. The owner has an intense interest in Buddhism and the sculpture celebrates the structure and spirit of the land and the stone itself. PRIVATE COLLECTION

Bacchas Marsh, Victoria, Australia Stones were gathered in consultation with Aboriginal elder, Warren Meeks and later built in consultation with elder, Tim Chatfield, Brambuk Living Cultural Centre, Budja Budja, Gariwerd. The totem for the people of this area of the Grampian (Gariwerd) mountains is the sulphur crested cockatoo. Part of the inspiration for this sculpture

Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand Thousands of floating boulders of pumice were gathered, drilled and threaded with stainless steel cable into tall hollow helical forms. The pumice originally exploded from Lake Taupō approx 2000 years ago and is still continually eroding and being washed down the Whanganui River.The sculpture symbolises the volcanic mountains from where

Trieste, Italy and England It was through my response to the horror of the Yugoslavian conflict breaking out over the border from Trieste that this sculpture came about. The conflict brought out negative human emotions all around me as I worked through a freezing winter in an abandoned and incomplete basement amid terraced vineyards 300m

Matauri Bay, Northland, New Zealand Commissioned by Ngāti Kura and New Zealand China Clays to commemorate the sinking of the Greenpeace ship ‘Rainbow Warrior’ by French agents in 1985. Obtaining the local materials by sea was fraught with difficulties as this is the Pacific Ocean and storms were prevalent that year. Despite giving time for