Red Cross, a brand new sculptural piece by renowned Karekare artist John Edgar, was officially unveiled outside Waitakere Central this week.
Waitakere City Council commissioned the stone sculpture (with funding assistance from Waitakere Properties Ltd) to complement Mr Edgar's earlier piece - the obelisk-like Transformer sculpture - located outside the Japanese Garden.
Mr Edgar says the two sculptures together represent important steps forward in his art practice, with the 2.5 tonne Transformer being the tallest and the 3.2 tonne Red Cross the largest he has created to date.
He says he hopes Red Cross will draw the public in:
"While Transformer is tall and perhaps somewhat daunting on a human scale, the Red Cross is tactile and welcoming and I hope that people will want to sit on it, feel it, explore its wonderful porous texture and contemplate the ageless nature of stone and its place in the modern world," he says.