This is a personal story of an unassuming New Zealander – a South Island West Coaster whose art work is instantly recognised in New Zealand and around the world.
Observational Documentary. 8 months spent at the Templeton Centre, home to 480 intellectually disabled residents live in timeless seclusion on the Canterbury Plains.
An Artist/blacksmith is commissioned to forge a sculpture of an endangered native bird.
South Canterbury’s Noel Gregg is one of the last of a breed who work metal in a way that has changed little in a thousand or two years.
This one hour documentary is to screen in Television New Zealand’s Arts Series ‘Artsville’ in 2010. As the title suggests, it’s a series about artists and their works. We have chosen two pounamu carvers.