The Ex Voto

Ex votos are offerings of supplication or gratitude found especially in Mediterranean Churches. With my pressed copper pieces there are both positive and negative images interlocked into each side, encouraging turning and interpretation.

Pressed

Terry Stringer

Terry Stringer is a leading New Zealand sculptor and a key figure in the history of art in New Zealand. He graduated in 1967 with Honours from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland and in the following years received virtually every significant scholarship and award available to New Zealand artists. In 2003 Stringer was awarded the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to sculpture. Stringer has exhibited previously with Webb’s in 1980, and again in 2006.

Working predominantely in bronze, the majority of Stringer’s sculptures depict figures and still-life subjects. His work is found in numerous high-profile public sites throughout New Zealand – his work Mountain Fountain is in the forecourt of Auckland’s Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Parnell. Risen Christ has recently been re-installed in central Christchurch and Hygeia is a newly commissioned work on the forecourt of Auckland University Medical School.

List of works

Sculptures

(bronze with oil painted polychrome, except for Green Man , which is bronze)

1. Green Man (maquette), 2022, 280 × 70 × 90mm, edition 10

2. The Street (maquette), 2021, 360 × 100 × 100mm on a brass base 1320mm high, edition of 3

3. Egyptian Child (maquette), 2022, 450 × 90 × 90mm, edition of 2

4. Green Man , 2022, 1420 × 300 × 330mm on a bronze base 900mm high, edition of 2

5. Mother and Child with Angels , 2022, 850 × 190 × 190mm on a bronze base 820mm high, edition of 3

6. Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time , 2022, 750 × 180 × 160mm on a bronze base 820mm high, edition of 2

7. The Street, 2021, 790 × 160 × 150mm on a bronze base 820mm high, unique

8. Egyptian Child , 2022, 1960 × 300 × 300mm on a bronze base 350mm high, unique

9. Youth and the Antique, 2022, 2000 × 350 × 320mm on a bronze base 350mm high, unique

Ex votos (pressed copper)

10. Night & Day, 2009, 120 × 120 × 5mm, edition of 12

11. Wish You Here , 2009, 150 × 80 × 5mm, edition of 30

12. Blessing , 2009/22, 120 × 70 × 5mm, edition of 12

13. In Fair / In Foul , 2009, 85 × 150 × 5mm, edition of 2

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Terry Stringer – New work: Seeing twice, at Webb’s, Wellington, 15 February – 11 March 2023.

Copyright 2023.

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Text by Terry Stringer

Edited by Don Bassett

Design by Vic Segedin

Photography by Studio La Gonda

Printed and bound in Aotearoa New Zealand by PDQ Print