Bing Dawe

Bing (Brian) Dawe (born 1952) is a New Zealand artist and sculptor.

He graduated from the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts in 1976 where he studied under Tom Taylor.

As well as being an acclaimed artist with works on display in galleries throughout New Zealand, Dawe was also an educator beginning in 1989 at Christchurch Polytechnic (now Ara Institute of Canterbury) as the Programme Co-ordinator of Craft Design.

[2] After 28 years of teaching at Ara Institute of Canterbury, Dawe retired in August 2017.

Around the same time he completed a 3D cast bronze work for Ara's North Green gateway called Diverting.

Diverting. Defending. Birds over the Waimakariri
Tuna (2013), a sculpture of a New Zealand longfin eel located at the Auckland Botanic Gardens