Kingsley Baird is a

Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ...

-based artist and designer whose commissions include the

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at the National War Memorial of New Zealand and Te Korowai Rangimarie – Cloak of Peace – at

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. His work – primarily in

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

– is concerned mostly with themes of memory and remembrance, loss and reconciliation, and cultural identity. It comprises collaborative

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...

and

urban design Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes based on geographical location. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, city, ...

projects,

installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific art, site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior intervent ...

video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. V ...

and

painting Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

, as well as community projects. His commissions include the Australia-New Zealand Memorial, Canberra, and the

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sculpture in Tawa village. Baird holds a Master of Fine Art degree from

RMIT The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

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, and a Diploma in Arts from

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. He is currently a practising

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and designer, and Professor at the College of Creative Arts,

Massey University Massey University () is a Public university, public research university in New Zealand that provides internal and distance education. The university has campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North, and Wellington. Data from Universities New Zealand ...

of Wellington.

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Canberra New Zealand Memorial East Side 001.JPG, The New Zealand Memorial (2001) in

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, Australia Tomb of the Unknown Warrior June 2012.JPG, The

(2004) at the National War Memorial in Wellington

External links

Kingsley Baird's website
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 {{Oceania-sculptor-stub

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