MICHAEL
WEIR
Master Sculptor
Michael Weir is an elite New Zealand Renaissance Sculptor and Fine Art &
Porcelain Restorer with artworks in collections here and overseas. Michael
did not have the advantage of a mentor or to be able to attend an art school
but he had a natural gift, the gift to sculpt and this he has pursued over
the last twenty five years, studying thegreat sculptured works of Bernini
and Michaelangelo and has dedicated his life in the pursuance of these great
masters.
While still at school Michael had
a brush with
destiny in the taking up of a job in a Bronze Foundry. Part of his work was
to remodel and repair sculptures in preparatory tothe casting in Bronze. It
was during this time that his remarkable gift for the three dimensional, realism
art of sculpture became apparent and it was inevitable it would take over
his life. At the age of nineteen Michael started down the lonely road to becoming
a professional sculptor.
A very prolific sculptor, Michael has created a vast collection of sculptures
known as the 'Michael Weir Collection', consisting of Portraiture, Sportsmen,
Figurative, Animals and Commissions for private collector's and a life-size
'Public Works Commission' sculpture for the Hauraki District Council, of Waihi,
New Zealand.
A virtuoso in his own right, and possible
entrepreneur, Michael's natural talent for realism and the sheer beauty of
his creations has established him among the elite Sculptors' in New Zealand
today.
