Taranaki

Wall sculpture

2025

Dimensions: Ø 40 cm, width 20 cm

Pre-assembled

Limited edition of 12

Signed and numbered

In 1999 I climbed to the top of Mount Taranaki on the Northern Island of New Zealand, a spiritual experience that I still treasure today.

In 2025 Mount Taranaki was granted legal personhood, becoming the country’s third natural feature to gain the same rights, duties and protections as individuals.

The mountain region is of considerable cultural significance to Taranaki Māori and its designation of legal personhood is a long-awaited acknowledgment of their relationship to it, including that it is considered an ancestor.

It is also the first time the mountain – formally called Taranaki Maunga – will be solely referred to officially by its Māori name, laying to rest its former colonial name, Mount Egmont.