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‘Ripples’

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‘Ripples’

‘Ripples’ by Neil Dawson was commissioned in 1987 to celebrate the opening of the new Waikato Museum building in Grantham St, just off Victoria St. It hung between trees on the riverbank below the museum, representing the effect of a stone thrown in the water, until removed in 2023 after it suffered irreparable damage during Cyclone Gabrielle.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato places – Hamilton west of the river, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27365/ripples (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 11 June 2015.