Daniel Clemmett's witty take on moai

Emerging from the ruins
NEWS.com.au, Australia - Oct 31, 2007
Daniel Clemmett used parts from car bonnets for his witty take on the famous Moai statues on Easter Island. Titled Ran Out of Wood, his assemblage of rusty ...

Visual treats at Sculpture by the Sea
Daily Telegraph, Australia - Oct 31, 2007
Daniel Clemmett used parts from car bonnets for his witty take on the famous Moai statues on Easter Island. Titled Ran Out of Wood, his assemblage of rusty ...

Moai painted on wooden chest

Once a cancer fighter, always a fighter
London Free Press, Canada - Oct 29, 2007
On the chest, made of oak and cedar, Bradley painted the Parthenon, the Roman Colosseum, Easter Island Statues and Kukulkan's Pyramid. ...

Two moai-style heads/Pink Floyd album cover

Art's on their sleeve
Courier Mail, Australia - Oct 19, 2007
By Noel Mengel TWO giant Easter Island-type heads stand eerily facing each other in the fens of East Anglia, a distant cathedral framed in their mouths. ...

Quiet Axis/Rapa Nui

Carnegie Museum Presents 40-Year Visionary Paintings
HULIQ, NC - Oct 11, 2007
... aspect of Quiet Axis, which in 1978 was released into the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near Easter Island, exactly opposite the globe from Afghanistan. ...

Anonymous moai-like stone carvings in Yorkshire

Who is leaving these bizarre stone heads on our doorsteps?
Times Online, UK - Oct 1, 2007
Residents of Yorkshire could be forgiven for wondering if Easter Island has come to the North of England after at least 19 carved stone heads were left on ...








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Stone head mystery puzzles northern England
Reuters UK, UK - Oct 2, 2007
As many as 20 artfully carved faces, miniature versions of the Easter Island sculptures, have been deposited in sleepy villages across northern England in ...

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Enigmatic artist may be behind the riddle of the invading stone headsThis is London, UK - Oct 2, 2007... of looking like a miniature version of Easter Island, a clamour is growing for the conundrum of the surreptitious sculpture-spreader to be cracked. ...

















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WEIRD NEWS
Commonwealth Times (subscription), VA - Oct 4, 2007
As many as 20 miniature versions of the Easter Island head sculptures have been mysteriously left on doorsteps and outside post offices in villages across ...

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Intriguing news reports fresh off the Internet
Tri-Valley Herald, CA - Oct 5, 2007
The heads are 18-inch-high miniatures of the giant heads on Easter Island, and according to stonemasons the sculptures exhibit quality workmanship. ...

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Who's Been Leaving Heads Behind?
ShortNews.com, Germany - Oct 6, 2007
Small versions of the famous Easter Island Heads have been appearing on doorsteps of some homes and businesses in Northern London and the recipients are at ...

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Intriguing news reports fresh off the Internet
Tri-Valley Herald, CA - Oct 5, 2007
The heads are 18-inch-high miniatures of the giant heads on Easter Island, and according to stonemasons the sculptures exhibit quality workmanship. ...

Rapa Nui engraving by Duché de Vancy used in language class

Learning language at UofL more than conjugating verbs
U Of L News, KY - Sep 17, 2007
This engraving of French explorers on the island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was published in 1797. It is one of several by Duché de Vancy, official artist for the Jean-Francois de Lapérouse expedition, that Greene will use in class.

Henry Moore inspired by Rapa Nui art

This still startles with its novelty, timeless political relevance ...
This is London, UK - Sep 3, 2007When he said this, Henry Moore was 74 and well able to look back over his work and see it in the context-of the Italian Renaissance, ancient Greece and Rome, Stonehenge and Easter Island. In the spirit of enquiry he had acquired a repertory of ...

Tucson, Arizona artist painted miniature golf moai

Local artist aims brush at lesser Tucson landmarks
Inside Tucson Business, AZ - Aug 20, 2007
... Shari’s Drive In on North First Avenue, a Lucky Wishbone restaurant and the Easter Island sculpture at Magic Carpet Miniature Golf on East Speedway. ...

Make your own Moai at the Woodbury Public Library

At the Woodbury Public Library
The Photo News
Jul 28, 2007

Monday, July 30, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Middle School “YNK - You Never Know” activity program at the Central Valley branch entitled “History’s Mysteries.” Explore Atlantis, Stonehenge, crop circles and make your own Easter Island Moai. Open to all residents of the Town of Woodbury and the Monroe-Woodbury School District who are entering Grades 6-9. Call 928-2114 to sign up.

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Exhibiting photographer has applied his art to Rapa Nui

The sorrow and the pity
The works in 'Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After' are indirect yet powerful
By Robert L. Pincus - UNION-TRIBUNE ART CRITIC
SignOnSanDiego
April 12, 2007

Michael Kenna has an eye for spare, subtly beautiful scenes, which he has applied to places all over the globe – from Easter Island to Japan to his native England and even to his adopted home, San Francisco. In doing so, the widely exhibited and published photographer has crafted pictures with the idea of creating space “reserved for the viewer.”

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Artist hopes to exude "solitude" of moai

Mixed Media, Tied Together
KATHERINE RUSHWORTH, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Post-Standard
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Datz writes he hopes the pieces exude "the feeling of solitude like stone heads on Easter Island and the necessity of African Art."

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"Dr. Love on Easter Island" film on show in Vienna

MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Nicole Scheyerer
Translated by Nicholas Grindell
frieze
March 5, 2007

At the centre of the exhibition, visitors were shown Dr. Love on Easter Island (2006), a video filmed in the Pacific. For this departure from familiar territory, Krystufek chose Bas Jan Ader as a kind of alter ego. What if, the video asks, the artist who disappeared during an Atlantic crossing in 1975 got stranded on Easter Island? As ‘She-Bas’, the artist roams the home of the famous moai stone giants.

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Manchester, England sculptor created two moai

Can anyone chip in to help sculptor?
by Alex Phelan
South Manchester Reporter
Published: 15th February 2007

Among the pieces he has created are two Easter Island-style heads which sit either side of the driveway at his Errwood Road home, magnesium chalk water-features and a Roman symbol.

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Rapa Nui/moai-inspired graffiti photographed in London

Moai Graffiti in London
posted by Tiki Chris
Photography by Emiana © 2007
Tiki Chris
Monday, January 22, 2007










The other day while strolling along Regents Canal and Essex Street in Islington, Emiana and I came across these samples of street art with a bit of Polynesian flair.

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Foto America festival in Rapa Nui

Capturing the Soul of Afghanistan - in Pictures
Daniela Estrada
Inter Press Service News Agency
Nov 30, 2006

Munita's photographic essay is one of the 210 works comprising the "Foto America" festival, which is taking place in every Chilean region, including Isla de Pascua (Easter Island) from Nov. 8 to Dec. 17 ... "Foto América" is a private initiative spearheaded by Chilean photographer Roberto Edwards, and inspired by other Latin American biennial festivals such as "Fotoseptiembre" in Mexico, "Mira Foto" in Perú and "Festival de la Luz" ("Festival of Light") in Argentina.

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Shetland Islands artist inspired by moai

Cost of failing to plan future
Rosalind Griffiths
Photo: Lorna Sandison
Shetland Today
10 November 2006










Jeff Tungatt working on his carving "The Heid" inspired by the Easter Island statues.

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Moai inspire contemporary art at Memphis museum

Brooks Introduces: Urban Primitive Works
Artdaily.com
Friday, October 27, 2006



















Easter Island idols, African ceremonial masks, voodoo dolls, and references to Lisa Marie Presley come together in an exhibition of contemporary work by at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Urban Primitive Works by Christopher Wollard and Steven Troy Williams is part of the museum's ongoing series, Brooks Introduces, a program designed to showcase the work of young artists who are either currently in art school or recently graduated.

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Moai "Canstruction" in North Carolina

Exploris exhibit - Projects illustrate artistic can-do
From Staff Reports
News and Observer
Published: Oct 23, 2006 12:30 AM
Modified: Oct 23, 2006 02:11 AM

Competing teams, led by architects and engineers, showcase their talents by designing giant sculptures made of canned foods. At the close of the exhibitions, the canned foods will be donated to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina ... Among the landmarks created: the Taj Mahal in India, Big Ben in England, St. Basil's Cathedral in Russia and the Easter Island statues off the coast of Chile.

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"Thought Travels" artist inspired by moai

Thought Travels at The James W. Palmer Gallery
Artdaily.com
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Works by the sculptor Strong-Cuevas, including those in her new exhibition Thought Travels, often suggest objects produced by mighty civilizations. Comparisons can be made to figures seen, for example, in Mayan and Egyptian art, from the profiles of people depicted in narrative wall paintings to the simple lines of works in stone made in tribute to revered rulers and omnipotent deities, including the enigmatic heads of Easter Island.

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