Nike Savvas and ‘Finale: Bouquet’

Find out about leading contemporary Australian artist Nike Savvas and her exhibition Finale: Bouquet at Te Papa in 2019.

Nike Savvas, dressed in a dark blue dress, lies on a lighter blue beanbag on the grass, holding and surrounded by orange flowers

About Nike Savvas

Nike Savvas is a leading contemporary artist from Australia. Trained as a painter, Savvas works fluidly across sculpture, installation, kinetic and light-based media

An extreme close-up of brightly-coloured pieces of plastic suspended from the ceiling

Nike Savvas – Finale: Bouquet

‘Finale: Bouquet’ captures a moment of jubilation, with confetti caught mid fall in a celebration that never ends.

Closed

8 Aug 2019 – 12 Jan 2020

Exhibition Ngā whakaaturanga

‘Finales represent an end, and as such tend to be celebratory in tone’ – Nike Savvas on ‘Finale: Bouquet’

Nike Savvas talks to Curator Contemporary Art Nina Tonga about her work, Finale: Bouquet, on display in Toi Art until Jan 2020.

A person on a scissor lift is obscured by a dense collection of strands of colourful pieces of plastic hanging from the ceiling while another person looks over a bridge beside the work down towards the floor, where the work continues

The installation

Like a three-dimensional painting, thousands of fluttering, colourful strands fill the gallery.

An man stands on a scissor lift installing Finale: Bouquet

How we brought Nike Savvas’ Finale: Bouquet to life

Three-dimensional painting, thousands of fluttering, colourful strands. Hundreds of thousands in fact. Spatial designer Vioula Said and exhibition preparator Sam Wallis run you through what went into bringing it to life.

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