11-05-2025
Regional Wrap goes to Runanga - carver Rob Dykes Law
A few week's back Culture101 heard from a listener, sculptor Rob Dykes Law in Rapahoe. "I have just glued a pounamu serpentine crest, to a 24cm onewa patu with lizard face carved on one half. Mezoamerican influence, " Rob txted. "I have my door open, sitting, its raining, with mist, a weka is walking by. Tourists are flying past at break neck speed in their cars." Rapahoe is just outside Runanga north of Greymouth in Te Tai o Poutini, the South Island's West Coast. There Dykes Law is part of a fledgling carvers group, all graduates of Te Tai o Poutini Polytechnic. He has exhibited at Greymouth's Left Bank Art Gallery and Shades of Jade. He joins us for our Regional Wrap.
