Kohaihai: Frills for Green Triangles

Artist
Geoff PARK (New Zealander, b.1946, d.2009): Artist
 Production date
1976
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Description
An aquatint etching depicting silhouettes of a nikau palm and flax bush. The title refers to the South Island West Coast river and bluff located in the Kahurangi National Park north of Karamea (the west coast end/beginning of the Heaphy Track_. Kohaihai is renowned for unspoilt nikau forests. The artist (who is also known as a writer on ecological subjects) was involved in the protest movement that saw this area being designated as a conservation park in the late 1970s.
Medium
Aquatint etching on paper
Measurements
Dimensions: 1 - Image: 570 x 395mm
Dimensions: 2 - Plate: 505 x 375mm
Dimensions: 3 - Frame: 828 x 628mm
Edition
A/P
Subject place
Kohaihai, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand
Related information
https://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/11601/geoff-park
Credit line
Gifted by the artist in 1977
Accession number
656

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