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Anton Parsons (born 1968, in
Palmerston North Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the ...
) is a New Zealand sculptor. His work often contain letters and numbers, sometimes in Braille or Braille-like codes, these are typically arranged along linear of curvilinear surfaces. Some of his early work consisted of meticulously crafted oversize pencils and other writing equipment. Later he produced a series of works involving oversized Braille often in collaboration with the blind poet Dr. Peter Beatson of Palmerston North. The Braille works were followed by a series of works designed to fit in gallery doorways, they consisted of vertical plastic strips similar to a cheap fly screen.


Education

Parsons gained a Batchelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the Canterbury School of Fine Art in 1990.


Awards and grants

While at university Parsons was awarded the Rosemary Muller sculpture award and obtained a number of grants in the following years which allowed him to develop his practice. *1990 – Rosemary Muller sculpture award, University of Canterbury *1991 – Q.E.2 Arts Council, Creative projects grant *1993 – Q.E.2 Arts Council, Professional development grant *1996 – Creative New Zealand, New work development grant


Public commissions

Parsons has been commissioned to produce a number of site specific sculptures in New Zealand *1992 – Alphabeti, Department of Justice, High Court, Wellington *2002 – Gone Fishing, PriceWaterhouse Coopers Building, Auckland *2002 – Polyglot, North Shore District Court, Albany *2003 – Invisible City, Lambton Quay, Wellington. *2004 – Analogue, KPMG Building, Tauranga *2007 – Numbers, Coleman Mall, Palmerston North *2011 – Passing Time, Wilson Reserve, Christchurch


Collections

* Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North * Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth * Robert McDougal Art Gallery, Christchurch * Sargent Art Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand * Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand * Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa


References

1968 births 20th-century New Zealand sculptors 20th-century New Zealand male artists 21st-century New Zealand sculptors 21st-century New Zealand male artists Living people People from Palmerston North {{Oceania-sculptor-stub