Griz (Chris) Edmonds

Based: Rawhiti, Napier 

 

Griz Edmonds has been exhibiting his timber sculptures and carvings throughout Hawke’s Bay since 1992, when he and his partner, Jil Sergent (JiL of Aotearoa) created an olive press from pine thinnings at the EIT Log Symposium.

 

They based the olive press on a picture from the National Geographic and were so successful with the project that they (and the press) ended up on TV3 news that night.

 

It appears that Griz’s practise has only been moving forward since then. He and Jil created Fire Sculpture for ten years of Napier Winter Solstice Fire Festivals, and he has been involved regularly in the ‘themed’ exhibitions with Creative Hastings, as well as several garden art events.