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T's & C's
- One FREE Baby Fantail per order
- Promotion ends 25th June at 11.59pm (NZST)
- Limit of 1 FREE baby bird per order.
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Mother's Day is quickly approaching and to celebrate, we're giving away a Metalbird everyday to you and a mum that you'd like to thank.
To enter, head to our Facebook or Instagram and tag a mum to go in the draw.
T's and C's:
Competition runs from 30th of April until the 6th of May 2019.
The bird of the day will be released each day at 7am (NZST).
Entries close at 11.59pm (NZST) the same day.
Winners will be announced via Instagram and Facebook stories at 11am (NZST) the day after the bird has been released.
Entrants can enter once only, per day.
Competition is open to New Zealand residents only.
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This Kereru pair is the perfect gift for your ‘tweetheart’ who’s a mum. Show her that you appreciate what she does as part of your team.
This Tui is the perfect gift for mums who love singing in the shower. She’s a Rockstar and you should remind her of that!
This Ruru is the perfect gift for the mum who is always wise, and makes sure you do the right thing.
Is the mum in your life all of the above things and you just can’t decide which one to get her?
We’ve got you covered! Give mum an e-gift card this year and let her decide.
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To celebrate Christmas this year, we are giving you and a friend the opportunity to each win one of our birds for your home or garden each day from the 1st to the 12th of December.
These birds are the perfect addition to your home or apartment. They are designed to rust to a deep brown colour when exposed to the conditions, and attract real birds like themselves.
To win, head to our Facebook or Instagram page, like the post & tag a bird lover to go in the draw to win the bird of the day for you and your friend.
Terms & Conditions
Competition runs from 1st of December until the 12th of December 2018.
The bird of the day will be released each day at 10 am.
Entries close at 11.59 pm the same day.
Winners will be announced via Instagram and Facebook stories at 10 am the day after the bird has been released.
Entrants can enter as many times as they want.
Competition is open to New Zealand residents only.
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]]>Phil began working with the plans for the gardens alongside the lead deisgner, Cathy Challinor, who identified five sites for our birds. Based on restrictions of these sites, Phil evolved the designs to include a ruru (NZ native owl), a kereru (wood pigeon), piwakawaka (fantail) two tui and a Belgian skylark - a bird often heard singing during lulls in battle.
With designs for each of the silhouetted birds finalised, Phil also needed to decide how they would be installed.
Phil explains:
"I created a new tui, and morphed some existing designs onto different branches and different mounts, out of necessity more than anything. At the end of the day, stuff needs to work with the site. For example, the tui are sitting on a bit of flax mounted in-ground, with a specific flax flower that Chris wanted."
A lone Kereru was bolted to the central concrete column, drilled with a bullet hole for each of the soldiers lost. At first, this caused concern that the bolts would ceate splits on the concrete.
"We got an engineer involved who'd done the original concrete. The column was so symbolic of the whole thing so we needed to be careful."
Installation made easy
With our Amsterdam outpost, we were well positioned to deliver the birds - we manufactured them in Europe, and Phil drove them to the site to install.
As Phil says, the whole thing seemed to come together perfectly.
"We could make them there so there'd be no shipping issues, and I chucked them in the van, delivered and installed them. The whole thing really worked. I was so chuffed to be part of the process, and we just happened to have a good capability to do it."
Reflecting on Passchendaele
During his visit, Phil took some time to visit the cemetery and reflect on the lives lost.
"The gravity of being there - and the number of people walking around, visiting the site - it's sobering."
The gardens opened in October 2017, and Phil is looking forward to returning to see how the birds have bedded in, rusted and settled into the environment.
Placed subtly around the garden, they add a moment of discovery for visitors, who regularly comment on them.
"When Kiwis go there and see them, it's nice to have a bit of familiarity - that moment of recognition."
That gritty heritage comes direct from our artist in residence, Phil Walters – he first noticed the power of street art on a 2005 trip to New York City.
As anyone who’s ever visited will know, New York is a place to wander. The city is a boiling mass of people living out dreams and struggling to get by. It’s part of why the street art – an art form born of disenfranchisement, rage, and raw talent – flourishes in New York City. In fact, last year, a jury ruled that a NYC real estate developer broke the law when he painted over the graffiti art covering his building.
Street art might not be in galleries or fine art auctions, but its validity as an art form is now unquestioned. That was something born home to Phil when he stopped cold by a piece of art left in a dark alley.
“I saw what I thought was a pallet – but it was a piece of art that read ‘fame game’.”
The fact that someone would create something so powerful and leave it in the public space, added to its power. This was a statement left out for the world to see – not just for the rich to enjoy behind closed doors.
It began a love affair with street art, which ultimately inspired the designs created by Metalbird.
While you’ll find moments of startlingly powerful art tucked into every corner of the city, here are some of Phil’s favourite pieces – much of this has probably already disappeared.
Bher specialises in high-impact 3D spaces, built out of low-cost materials. His work seems to be created of the cityscape itself – looking as it every day scenes have morphed into bizarre, exotic extensions of themsleves.
http://strictlypaper.com/blog/2012/02/cardboard-installations-in-nyc-by-clemens-behr/
A traditional craft has turned high-impact art installation often seen around NYC.
https://untappedcities.com/2013/10/15/10-fun-examples-yarn-bombing-trend-nyc/
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