Renowned New Zealand artist Regan Gentry is this week putting the final touches to a 9-metre high sculpture being installed alongside the Tauranga Eastern Link.
The Spinifex sculpture is made of street lights and joins a 138m-long palisade pa sculpture already in place on the opposite side of the TEL.
The pa is made from roadside safety guard rails and wood re-used from Tauranga's Coronation Pier.
The works are funded by the NZ Transport Agency as part of the TEL project and are being installed ahead of the road's opening later this year.
Gentry said his team had been working long days to install the artworks and, despite a few battles with the wet weather, they were almost finished.
