Carterton sculptor Sean Crawford's half-animal half-metal sculptures are not to everybody's taste - they've prompted hate mail at previous exhibitions - but he has spent the past few months preparing for a new show called Fight or Flight, which opens on Friday.
The exhibition will run until October 27 at Form Gallery, Christchurch, alongside work by Wellington artist David Lloyd.
He has six pieces for display at the show ranging from a life-size steel stag to a pair of rabbits boxing each other.
Although the work was mostly made of steel half of each rabbit was a taxidermy piece.
This was not a new medium for Mr Crawford, who made a large half-boar, half-metal piece called Feral which was on display at Aratoi last year.