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 [...]
A few snapshots of events from over the Centennial weekend. (Use the arrows on the left and right of the gallery to go forward and [...]
The Featherston Sculpture Trust is combining forces with the Featherston Anzac Club Society and the RSA to plan a fabulous birthday celebration for the wonderful Anzac Hall built by the people of Wairarapa in 1916 to provide a venue for entertaining the soldiers at the nearby Military Training [...]
A recently completed feasibility study (funded by a WW100 Lottery Grant) concluded that: “There is no other place with such a unique history and connection to the New Zealand soldiers of World War 1 and a small, typical rural town that supported and connected with a very large intrusion in its [...]
In July 2014 the South Wairarapa District Council agreed in principle to support the installation of the sculpture. Subsequently, with the support of the Featherston Community Board, resource consent was granted to install the sculpture in the proposed Town [...]
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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