A Large Scaled Dibble

Please join us for the ‘unwrapping’ of the Palmerston North Public Sculpture Trust’s latest artwork to grace Palmerston North. Paul Dibble’s Who’s Afraid will be formally unveiled by representatives of the Trust and the City of Palmerston North at 3PM on Sunday July 3^rd in front of the Regent Theatre on Broadway, Palmerston North. ‘Who’s Afraid’ is a 3.3 metre tall sculpture featuring a dancer ‘facing off’ with a tuatara, New Zealand’s only living dinosaur! The eight foot long lizard is affectionately called ‘George’ after a tuatara of that name that Dibble saw at the Tuatara exhibit at the Southland Museum, Invercargill. The dancer has yet to be named but I have asked our local arts journalist to instigate a competition to name the dancer. I thought Matilda was a good choice – you know….waltzing Matilda, etc…. A customer at my gallery suggested Isadora, for Isadora Duncan a dancer of international reputation. Let us know what name you would chose.