
About Nike Savvas
Nike Savvas is a leading contemporary artist from Australia. Trained as a painter, Savvas works fluidly across sculpture, installation, kinetic and light-based media
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
(except Christmas Day)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Finale: Bouquet, an installation by Australian artist Nike Savvas, captures a moment of jubilation, with confetti caught mid-fall in a celebration that never ends.
8 Aug 2019 – 12 Jan 2020
Toi Art, Level 4
Free entry
All ages
15 minutes
wheelchair accessible
there is no barrier around the artwork – which reaches from the ceiling to the floor
the artwork is brightly lit from above
fans operate intermittently causing the artwork to move
please don’t touch the artwork
Like a three-dimensional painting, thousands of fluttering, colourful strands fill the gallery.
The seven-colour palette was inspired by multiple sources, including botanical prints of native New Zealand flora by Sarah Featon (1848–1927).
The installation, precisely arranged, invites you to imagine you are immersed in a bouquet of colour and movement. For artist Nike Savvas, your participation completes the artwork.
Finale: Bouquet is part of Te Papa’s permanent collection.
200,000+ pieces of confetti
6,000 strands
6 variations of colour
68 grams per strand, for a total artwork weight of roughly 400 kg
6 installers
816 hours to install
Nike Savvas is a leading contemporary artist from Australia. Trained as a painter, Savvas works fluidly across sculpture, installation, kinetic and light-based media
Like a three-dimensional painting, thousands of fluttering, colourful strands fill the gallery.
Nike Savvas talks to Curator Contemporary Art Nina Tonga about her work, Finale: Bouquet, on display in Toi Art until Jan 2020.
Three-dimensional painting, thousands of fluttering, colourful strands. Hundreds of thousands in fact. Spatial designer Vioula Said and exhibition preparator Sam Wallis run you through what went into bringing it to life.
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