Faye Milligan, Tom Parker Fountain (PLACES 2024)

The Tom Parker Fountain in Napier, New Zealand was named after Tom Parker, a local businessman who owned a men’s wear shop in the town. He donated £1000 for the fountain to be built in the Marine Parade Gardens and it was opened on Christmas Eve in 1936. The fountain features kaleidoscopic changes of coloured lights which are synchronised with sequences of water jets. Beneath this area lies the rubble of the old Napier destroyed in the 1931 earthquake. Whilst the fountain is mostly shown in its multi coloured mode I think it looks very grand as a black and white image.

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