On Saturday 10 November the sculpture was dedicated and named by Associate Minister for Arts and Culture Hon Grant Robertson and South Wairarapa Mayor Viv Napier. Thank you to all our supporters – this is a truly magnificent, moving artwork and a wonderful asset for our region and the entire [...]
In association with the Featherston Commemorates organising committee, a 12-page booklet has been published with details of all the events happening next month in-and-around Featherston as part of the Armistice Centenary 2018. There will be month-long special exhibitions in the town’s [...]
On Friday 24 August The Rt Hon. Dame Patsy Reddy GNZM QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand ‘turned the first sod’ on the sculpture site. Work begins in earnest on Monday 3 September to build the foundations the sculpture will be placed on. Thanks to two final grants from One Foundation [...]
With 90% of the funding required now raised, the Featherston Camp Sculpture is under way. The crew at the Dibble workshop are hard at it making the molds ready for the bronze pours. Thanks to all who have contributed ideas for the backs of the columns. Definite themes are emerging, and these are [...]
We’ve made it! With recent funding grants from Trust House, Lion Foundation and the Lottery Grants Board, we are now in a position to go ahead and commission the sculpture. Public consultation for ideas for the bas reliefs on the back of the columns will now go into full swing. Please add [...]
THANK YOU!!! A heartfelt thanks to all our supporters – fundraising for the Featherston Camp Sculpture has reached $200,000. The Trust is particularly grateful to the Lion Foundation and Trust House Foundation for their ongoing support. Along with the generosity of individual supporters and other [...]
The campaign to raise funds for the nationally significant memorial to those who passed through the Featherston Military Training Camp in World War One is tantalisingly close to its target amount. “We’ve raised close to $140,000 – which is a fantastic achievement,” says Featherston [...]
The luncheon held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the commissioning of the Featherston Military Training Camp, and to launch our fundraising campaign was a huge success. The weather was beautiful (albeit very hot!) and one hundred and thirty-five guests enjoyed a delicious meal, fine wine, [...]
24 January 2016 is the official launch of our Boosted fundraising campaign. Boosted is a crowdfunding website funded by the Arts Foundation and we are grateful for the advice and expertise provided by our Boosted colleagues. 24 January 1916 was the date the first soldiers arrived at the Featherston [...]
Paul Dibble, designer (along with Athfield Architects) and producer of the magnificent “Southern Stand” sculpture in London’s Hyde Park has provided concept drawings and a scale model for the proposed sculpture. Paul and partner Fran Dibble expressed their excitement at being [...]
The Featherston Camp Sculpture has been listed as an official WW100 project. New Zealand’s First World War Centenary (WW100) programme marks the First World War centenary from 2014 to 2019 (from the breakout of war to when our troops came home) with a range of events, activities and projects [...]
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