2014

This work was part of the exhibition Organised Play at the Audio Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand.

In 1913 Arthur Thomas Myers bought the land between Greys Avenue and Queen Street and gifted this to the city of Auckland, New Zealand. He developed the land into an inner-city park with a free kindergarten and playground. The park was named “Myers Park” in his honour. The original playground was constructed with special playground equipment Myers imported from the US. It followed a model in the US called “The Reform Park” where parks were being developed closer to where people lived and as safe places for children to play. Myers Playground explores this playground as an incubator of ambition, imagination, and confidence, each sound a childhood memory.