OSPX

Gallery of artist Oliver Stretton-Pow

  • Mariner

    Mariner

  • Seesea

    Seesea

  • Exploded Sub

    Exploded Sub

  • Mythical Turbine

    Mythical Turbine

  • Axes

    Axes

  • Flotsam 1

    Flotsam 1

  • Father and Son

    Father and Son

  • Father detail

    Father detail

  • Mariner detail

    Mariner detail

  • Muses

    Muses

  • All torque

    All torque

  • Liberty

    Liberty

  • Short term goals

    Short term goals

  • Ullysses dreaming

    Ullysses dreaming

  • Black stic (after the cruel sea)

    Black stic (after the cruel sea)

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Like Father

  • Date: 15th January, 2010

The show at the Waiheke Community Gallery included a series of axe heads and two bows, inspired partly by Homer’s Odyssey, and partly by family. The Odyssey concerns the 10 year journey of Odysseus to his home of Ithaca after the Trojan War. The two bows that form part of the work, one large and one small, represent father and son, a link to family crest symbols, and the axe theme ties in to Oliver’s mother who gave him a gift of an axe, a treasured possession that accompanied him on his travels estabilishing bronze foundries in Europe, the UK and Israel.