WADE
The Wade series:
- Calls attention to the growing crisis for our water, our environment, our future
- Invites you to consider your stance (and our government’s stance) on what is shaping up to be one of the most serious social issues of all time. Water in Aotearoa New Zealand not so long ago was swimmable and drinkable became described as wadeable. The Wade works add another alternative conversation to the proliferation of official reports, scientific studies and media articles that bring attention to the careless use of our water resources.
- Raises contemporary questions by responding to Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old painting Garden of Earthly Delights. Drawing on the circular pond in the painting, Wade highlights 21st century issues about water and pollution in a series of sculptural works based on the twelve central wading figures with wading birds on their heads.
