Chauncey Flay - Seawall #25

Created over nine months in Rarotonga, Seawall is a limited series of 100 hand-made sculptures. Each work represents a single block from an imagined seawall, using reclaimed coral combined with contemporary construction materials to reflect on rising sea levels, overtourism, and environmental pressure on Pacific island communities.

All coral used in these works is non-living, many decades old, and was salvaged from demolished buildings. No material was taken from the marine environment. The works were imported to New Zealand with full CITES permits.

Each sculpture is unique and presented in a custom-made white presentation box, conceived as a collectible contemporary object.

- Reclaimed coral, fibre cement board, concrete, glass, polyfiller, mastic
- 2024-2025
- approx. 150 × 100 × 100 mm
- Limited series

A larger sculpture by Chauncey Flay can be found on the Sculpture Trail. To read more about it, click here.