The Bone Studio and Gallery

The Gallery's Artists --
Gary Wilson


Gary is a Whitianga wood carver trained at Te Awhina marae, Motueka. Gary spent 2½ years "immersion" carving on the marae and on a large waka (canoe) which sailed from Picton to Wellington in 1991.

Gary has won awards in the New Zealand woodskills competition including a first prize for the taurapa (stern post of a waka) currently on sale at The Bone Studio. He works mainly with kauri and totara and has retrieved old logs found in the Coromandel bush.

Gary Wilson
Taurapa
Taurapa		 Taurapa Detail
Taurapa Detail		 Tauihu
Tauihu
Poupou #1
Poupou #1		 Moko Head
Moko Head		 Poupou #2
Poupou #2
Wakahuia -- Closed Wakahuia -- Open Handle
Wakahuia, a container for huia feathers (extinct bird) and taonga (treasurers) usually hung from rafters, hence carved fully underneath. Wakahuia handle


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Remember, if you don't see what you like on the artist's pages but recognize the quality in their workmanship, I can arrange to have a work commissioned from any one of them.