WeMe

Created by New Zealand artist, Scott Eady, the artwork, Matou Ahau (We Me), represents the learner journey that is at once both individual and part of a community.
Scott says the artwork went through a lengthy development process. “Thinking about one’s practice as being formed and informed by others. I made a drawing where the words ME and WE were repeated hundreds of times,” he says.
“On top of the entrance bulkhead the words NAU MAI HAERE MAI illuminate from pounamu green coloured neon which at night-time illuminates the stainless-steel forms.
“The pairing of Māori with English words an honouring of Aotearoa New Zealand’s bicultural Treaty of Waitangi partnership.
“As people pass between the words either entering or exiting Te Pa Tauira, an image of self is reflected for just a moment on both the words ME and WE simultaneously.
Global stainless fabricated and polished the large block letters that were installed atop of two large corten plinths at the entrance to the Otago Polytechnic building.