Nike Savvas – Finale: Bouquet

An extreme close-up of brightly-coloured pieces of plastic suspended from the ceiling

Nike Savvas – Finale: Bouquet

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.

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When | Āhea

8 Aug 2019 – 12 Jan 2020

Where | Ki hea

Toi Art, Level 4

Cost | Te utu

Free entry

Ages | TE REANGA

All ages

Allow | ME WHAKARITE

15 minutes

Accessibility | E wātea ana ki

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

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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.

By the numbers

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

Entrance to *Finale: Bouquet*, 2019. Photo by Jack Fisher. Te Papa

Taking pictures of *Finale: Bouquet*, 2019. Photo by Jack Fisher. Te Papa

Kids staring at *Finale: Bouquet*, 2019. Photo by Jack Fisher. Te Papa

Nike Savvas *Finale Bouquet*, 2019. Photo by Maarten Holl. Te Papa (142577)

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Nike Savvas, dressed in a dark blue dress, lies on a lighter blue beanbag on the grass, holding and surrounded by orange flowers

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

A person on a scissor lift is obscured by a dense collection of strands of colourful pieces of plastic hanging from the ceiling while another person looks over a bridge beside the work down towards the floor, where the work continues

The installation

Like a three-dimensional painting, thousands of fluttering, colourful strands fill the gallery.

‘Finales represent an end, and as such tend to be celebratory in tone’ – Nike Savvas on ‘Finale: Bouquet’

Nike Savvas talks to Curator Contemporary Art Nina Tonga about her work, Finale: Bouquet, on display in Toi Art until Jan 2020.

An man stands on a scissor lift installing Finale: Bouquet

How we brought Nike Savvas’ Finale: Bouquet to life

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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