Collection: Lucretia Rose-Elizabeth Bird

Focusing on figurative sculpture especially portraiture, Lucretia has a love for nature and strives for simplicity. She is attracted to the power of the human form and emotion.  

Lucretia completed a Diploma in Maori Art in 2011 and a Bachelor of Media Art at WINTEC in 2014. She was also invited back as a tutor.  

After a significant break to focus on raising her family, Lucretia attended the Ngakau symposium in Thames in 2024, attending a hardstone workshop with Jocelyn Pratt. Later that year, the Waikeri Sculpture Trail was set up in Raglan, curated by Taimoana Meulie and Lucretia to coincide with the annual Raglan arts weekend, where sculpture artists showcased their work.  

Working from her studio in Ngaruawahia, Lucretia's aim is to create public sculptures and to become involved with more hard stone sculpture symposiums with a goal to travel to Florence Art Academy in Italy to study further.