How Custom Metal Sculptures Are Designed and Built in New Zealand

Custom metal sculpture being designed and built in New Zealand

A sheet of flat steel doesn’t look like much. It’s only once it’s been cut, shaped, layered, and welded, sometimes feather by feather, that it starts to look like something that could fly. That transformation, from raw material to living form, is what happens in our Wanaka workshop every time a new commission begins. Custom […]

Updraft: A Kinetic New Zealand Hawk Sculpture

Kinetic New Zealand Hawk Sculpture by Metalworks Wanaka

Updraft is our signature kinetic sculpture – a New Zealand Hawk (Kāhu) hand-built to move with the wind, functioning as a kinetic weather vane. Available in four sizes and a choice of steel finishes, it’s a centrepiece built to bring quiet motion into any outdoor space. Updraft Kāhu (hawk) and Kārearea (falcon) – large kinetic […]

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