Record
March 12 2014
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A portrait of the artist u by Belinda Cullen-Reid
Fourteen-year-old West Melton artist Henry Turner fulfilled his dream of exploring the sub-antarctic region last year. His expedition lead to a collection of drawings, some of which are currently on display at the Selwyn Gallery in Darfield.
An official opening of the Darfield Medical Centre was held last Friday evening …
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Students shave for a cure
Darfield High School students will lose their locks for cancer next week …
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School’s ‘peak’ fundraiser
Sheffield School played their part in the Speight’s Coast to Coast last month …
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Henry draws the things he loves from nature. He is obsessed with birds and other animals and conservation in general. His hobbies include collecting the skulls and skeletons of small creatures, and popping into the museum archives to draw from the specimens there. A whole cabinet in the family lounge is dedicated to such curiosities. Instead of family china this armoire holds treasures of a different kind including a kea skull from Temple Basin and a sea lion skull from North Dunedin. Henry hands me a whale invertebrate from Farewell Spit. It is the size of a football and sheds chalk like dust as he hands it over enthusiastically. He darts from one object to another. “I’m fascinated by the shape and form of these,” Henry says, referring to a collection of small bird skulls. “I’m fascinated with the beauty of the natural sciences.” In November of last year Henry and his mother Suzanne, a former high school biology teacher, boarded an icebreaker ship and travelled with the Heritage Expedition to the sub-antarctic. It was a trip he had dreamed about for at least three years, and had prepared for by reading everything he could about the area and its wildlife. “It was the most amazing and influential experience of my life. The water was exceedingly rough, but I loved it,” Henry exclaims.
p Fourteen-year-old West Melton artist Henry Turner gets up close and personal with penguins on his recent sub-antarctic expedition. He is passionate about nature and this shows through in his latest art works on display at the Selwyn Gallery in Darfield
While on his travels Henry met and photographed many species, including Yellow-eyed penguins at Auckland and Campbell Islands and Royal Albatross and giant petrel chicks at Campbell Island. Although unable to land the boat circled around the Antipodes and Bounty Isles. As he travelled Henry did drawings and recorded his thoughts about his experiences in a journal. He shared his experiences on the Heritage Expedition website.
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Medical Centre officially opens
36th ANNUAL RACE 36th ANNUAL RACE MEETING at MEETING MOTUKARARA RACEWAY at MOTUKARARA RACEWAY
SUNDAY 16 MARCH 2014 — First Race: 12 noon MEETING 8 — Official Programme: $2
On-course today... LIVE MUSIC
DUAL SULKY EVENTS
ACTION PACKED RACING
KLONDIKE KID KIDZ KARTZ – the running of the NZ Grass Track Cups for both the Minis and Ponies
FABULOUS GIVEAWAYS in our Double Chance Draw
p A bird skull is one of many fascinating objects from nature to be found in the family armoire
Proudly supporting Cystic Fibrosis
‘Bring A Friend’ Raceday