Elizabeth Thomson's moths look as delicate and capable of flight as any living lepidopteran but these ones are made of bronze. The Wellington-based artist has brought 160 of her individually cast moths to become part of the Creature exhibition showing at the Sarjeant's objects based gallery upstairs at the Whanganui i-Site on Taupo Quay.
"I made 500 of them for the first exhibition at the Dowse Art Museum in 2014," says Thomson. " They are first cast in silicon wax before I cast them in bronze."
The moths are true representations of New Zealand species and some are modelled on species found in the Kermadec Islands where Thomson stayed as an artist-in residence in 2011.
April 15, 2018
