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'The Journey'
2019
Bronze Cast
Paul Dibble started making bronze casts in a make-shift workshop in the late 1970s before establishing his own foundry in 2000. Ideas that begin as beautiful fluid line drawings are worked and reworked to a point of perfect balance before being modeled and cast. Paul was awarded a New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004, an Honorary Doctorate in Visual Arts from Massey University in 2007, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Universal College of Learning (Palmerston North) in 2012.
Fran Dibble's artistic practice encompasses both painting and bronze casting. Fran’s interest in bronze casting developed as part of her work with her husband, Paul Dibble. In 2007, Fran was awarded a Queen’s Service Medal for services to art, and in 2012 was made an Honorary Fellow of the Universal College of Learning, Palmerston North.
The Journey is a bronze sculpture of a student exiting a tent and reflects the transition from adolescence to adulthood; a symbol of the experience that students at St Paul's Collegiate School have. It is also symbolic of Saint Paul, a tentmaker, who transitioned from the name Saul and a persecutor of Christians to Paul the Apostle.
The Journey was commissioned by former St Paul's Collegiate School Headmaster, Grant Lander (2010 - April 2021), in 2019 to celebrate 60 years of St Paul's Collegiate School and 40 years of Tihoi Venture School.
Location: Main driveway (Hamilton Campus)
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