A sculpture of ACC and Environment Minister Nick Smith made out of cow manure has topped $3000 on auction site TradeMe.co.nz.
The auction for the sculpture, entitled Nick Smith In The Shit, closes on Friday. Bidding had reached $3010, though the reserve set by Canterbury artist Sam Mahon had not yet been met.
The listing describes the sculpture as "light and hollow and highly polished".The sculpture was on display at the COCA Gallery in Christchurch, exhibited on a steel stand.
Mahon is a Canterbury painter, printmaker and sculptor, who usually works in bronze.He has also written three books -- the latest, My Father's Shadow, was about his father Justice Peter Mahon, who headed the Royal Commission into the Erebus air disaster.
