Kingsley Baird
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Kingsley Baird is a Wellington-based artist and designer whose commissions include the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the National War Memorial of New Zealand and Te Korowai Rangimarie – Cloak of Peace – at Nagasaki Peace Park.
His work – primarily in sculpture – is concerned mostly with themes of memory and remembrance, loss and reconciliation, and cultural identity. It comprises collaborative landscape and urban design projects, installation art, video art and painting, as well as community projects. His commissions include the Australia-New Zealand Memorial, Canberra, and the kererū sculpture in Tawa village.
Baird holds a Master of Fine Art degree from RMIT, Melbourne, and a Diploma in Arts from Victoria University of Wellington. He is currently a practising artist and designer, and Professor at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University of Wellington.
Gallery
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The New Zealand Memorial (2001) in Canberra, Australia
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The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior (2004) at the National War Memorial in Wellington
Further reading
- Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, Government of New Zealand
- Kingsley Baird, Proposal for Nagasaki Peace Park, November 2005 accessed at [1] – unveiled Nov 2006 at [2] Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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- Living people
- Academic staff of Massey University
- Victoria University of Wellington alumni
- RMIT University alumni
- Artists from Wellington City
- 20th-century New Zealand sculptors
- 20th-century New Zealand male artists
- 21st-century New Zealand sculptors
- 21st-century New Zealand male artists
- 1957 births