Jill Blennerhassett stands in front of her latest commissioned metal sculpture, mounted in the grounds of the Olive Grove wedding venue. Wanaka may not have a museum but some of its oldest pioneering tools and scrap metal can be viewed and touched in a new outdoor sculpture. Three months ago she invited metal fabricator Nicolaus Lupacchino, of Metalworks Wanaka, to pick through her scrap metal collection and take what he needed to create a sculpture of a predator bird. A metal plate from an old Singer sewing machine was one side of the body, two shovels were the tail and metal hames, once used on a horse collar to distribute the weight, were the framework of the wings. Mrs Blennerhassett said the sculpture was one of several outdoor sculptures made from recycled materials around the wedding venue and was "just for fun".

Source: Otago Daily Times May 10, 2021 16:30 UTC