نيل داوسون
Нил Доусон
尼尔·道森
닐 도슨
ניל דוסון

a giant outdoor steel sculpture

source: gibbsfarmorgnz

Dawson’s Horizons is one of the earliest sculptures to be commissioned for the Gibbs Farm. Sitting as it does on one of the highest points in the property it is also one of the few works that can be seen from the road. This seems fitting given the way the tromp l’oeil character of the work is suggestive of a giant piece of corrugated iron that might have blown in from a collapsed water tank on some distant farm, only to rest precariously until the next gale lifts it into the air again.
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source: gibbsfarmorgnz

Neil Dawson was born in Christchurch in 1948 and studied at Canterbury University School of Fine Arts, Christchurch and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Dawson’s practice has focused on the production of large-scale, and site-specific, sculptures in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom. He is best known for his suspended sculptures, which included Globe installed for the exhibition Magiciens de la Terre at the Pompidou Centre, Paris in 1989. Other major commissions have included the Bomber Command war memorial sculpture in Canberra, Australia, and projects for Wellington’s Civic Square, Stadium Australia for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, and Cathedral Square, Christchurch. In 2003 Dawson received a Laureate Award from the New Zealand Arts Foundation.
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source: thisismarvelous

Neil Dawson creates eye-popping sculptures. He has produced many throughout New Zealand, Australia, Asia and the UK, and I have to admit that there’s a few I still can’t wrap my mind around. No matter how you look at them, your eyes and brain will trick you into believing that what you’re looking at is a simple drawing from a cartoon. Some of the sculptures are on land, while some others are hung in mid air.
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source: milfordgalleriesconz

“Born and bred in New Zealand, Neil Dawson is a sculptor of international standing. All of Dawson’s works emphatically echo aspects of this nation’s socio-cultural environments and, literally, elevate these in spatial celebrations that are at once accessible and challenging. A central achievement discernable in this sculptor’s work is his ability to embody in pure space, clusters of socio-cultural and global concerns.”(2)

Neil describes his work as “an obsession, like it is for the majority of artists,” adding that he “continue[s] to be excited by new projects.” In the 1998 catalogue for “Ferns,” Jim and Mary Barr say his work offers a “multiplicity of views that people can create for themselves as they move beneath or around his sculptures,” emphasising that while “Dawson has used the interplay of the constant and the serendipitous in many of his works, in the spheres the combination has proved inspiring.” (2)

Born in Christchurch in 1948, Dawson gained a Diploma of Fine Arts (Hons) from Canterbury University in 1970, and a Graduate Diploma in Sculpture from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, in 1973. Dawson was awarded an Arts Laureate by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand in 2003. In August 2005 he unveiled his Bomber Command war memorial sculpture Canberra, Australia.
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source: huderblogwordpress

Neil Dawson, un escultor aclamado nacido en Nueva Zelanda en 1948. Ha expuesto su obra en Nueva Zelanda, Australia, Asia y Reino Unido. Juega con la perspectiva y la gravedad, creando efectos casi mágicos a los ojos del espectador. Son esculturas de gran tamaño que simulan trozos de tela transparente, planetas suspendidos sobre una plaza…