Weather Stations, 2009

As part of Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear, Te Tuhi, 2023

Installed by J.A. Kennedy and Ammon Ngakuru with Paul Cullen Archive

The Paul Cullen Archive invited two artists, J.A. Kennedy and Ammon Ngakuru (a former artist-assistant of Cullen), to reconfigure Cullen’s 2009 installation, Weather Stations, for the Te Tuhi courtyard. The artist initially presented this site-related work as part of Headland Sculpture on the Gulf on Waiheke Island. He created a series of para-functional structures reminiscent of meteorological rain gauges, made of galvanised steel framing and concrete, hosing, pipes, and glass vitrines, sited on paved sections on a sloping bank. In this reassembled and updated version, the concrete tiles that functioned as the base in the original installation guide the dimensions of a new support structure within Te Tuhi’s courtyard. In the courtyard, steel frames are mounted on modified bases to closely mirror the original Waiheke Island layout, with the exception of any steel frames that no longer exist. Ngakuru and J.A. Kennedy also drew on Recent Discoveries, an installation Cullen presented in the Te Tuhi courtyard in 1994.

Read Ammon Ngakuru's text "Paul Cullen: Recent Discoveries and Weather Stations" (pages 118-129) as part of Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear, a digital publication published by Te Tuhi on Issuu.com, 2023.