Twelve Local Heroes

Twelve Local Heroes

The Twelve Local Heroes (" Twelve Local Heroes ") are twelve busts cast from bronze in the city center of the New Zealand city of Christchurch . You are standing on Worcester Boulevard in front of the Christchurch Arts Center . They commemorate twelve citizens of the city who distinguished themselves in their respective fields at the end of the 20th century.

history

The creation of the sculptures was supported by the Twelve Local Heroes charitable trust . It took four years until the sculptures were unveiled on March 18, 2009. The sculptures were created by Mark Whyte. After the earthquake in Christchurch, they were temporarily dismantled to rebuild the surrounding buildings.

The twelve local heroes

Surname	Lifetime	Brief description
Donald Ward Beaven	August 31, 1924 - November 4, 2009	Diabetes researcher
Frank Dickson	* around 1932	former head of Canterbury Savings Bank
Richard John Hadlee	3rd July 1951	former cricketer
Diana Isaac	1921 - November 23, 2012	Promoter of nature conservation, the arts and architecture
Elsie Locke	August 17, 1912 - April 8, 2001	Writer, feminist and activist
Charles Luney	June 28, 1905 - November 18, 2006	Construction industrialist
Margaret Mahy	March 21, 1936 - July 23, 2012	Author of children and young people
Tipene O'Regan	January 1, 1939	Māori guide
Robertson Stewart	September 21, 1913 - August 13, 2007	Industrialist
Bill Sutton	March 1, 1917 - January 23, 2000	Artist
Angus Tait	July 22, 1919 - August 7, 2007	Electronics pioneer and entrepreneur
Miles Warren	1929	architect

Web links

Commons : Twelve Local Heroes - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ John Hartevelt: Creative mistake for a creative writer . In: The Press , March 19, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
^ Mark Whyte: Twelve Local Heroes: a celebration: set of bronze busts commissioned by the Local Heroes Trust . Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2009, Christchurch , New Zealand 2009, ISBN 978-0-473-14878-2 .
↑ White (2009), p. 11.
^ Sir Robertson Huntly Stewart 1913-2007 . Christchurch City Libraries , archived from the original on November 8, 2014 ; accessed on February 22, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).

-43.53106 172.62872Coordinates: 43 ° 31 ′ 51.8 ″ S , 172 ° 37 ′ 43.4 ″ E

[after_unveiling-1] John Hartevelt: Creative mistake for a creative writer . In: The Press , March 19, 2009. Retrieved March 24, 2011.

[2] Mark Whyte: Twelve Local Heroes: a celebration: set of bronze busts commissioned by the Local Heroes Trust . Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2009, Christchurch , New Zealand 2009, ISBN 978-0-473-14878-2 .

[3] White (2009), p. 11.

[Christchurch_City_Libraries-4] Sir Robertson Huntly Stewart 1913-2007 . Christchurch City Libraries , archived from the original on November 8, 2014 ; accessed on February 22, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).