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Biography: Taylor, Ernest Mervyn

Broadcasting House panel

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Broadcasting House panel

Mervyn Taylor works on a carved panel that he was commissioned to produce for Broadcasting House, Wellington, in 1963. Entitled Time and space, it showed the sun and moon and all the signs of the zodiac carved in low relief on a kauri panel. Taylor often worked day and night to complete the commission.

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Tony Mackle. 'Taylor, Ernest Mervyn', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000, updated June 2015. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/46619/broadcasting-house-panel (accessed 4 June 2026).