As always, Christchurch artist, Bing Dawe combines craftsmanship and beauty in his artwork, whilst delivering a tough subject. In Dowsing and Divining an exhibition of cabinet works and works on paper Bing Dawe draws our attention to these small fish and their changing environment, which is being altered by man’s needs not theirs.

Divining rods, commonly y-shaped, are used to dowse for water. Although not a scientifically proven method to find water they represent for many a spiritual hope and desire. Referenced here by Bing Dawe he reminds us to work “…with landscape in a more sensitive way; through knowledge.”