Greg Tuthill
Greg Tuthill is a Whanganui-based sculptor working primarily in steel and glass. His practice blends digital design with traditional fabrication techniques, combining CAD modelling with welding, grinding, and hand finishing. Greg’s work is characterised by strong geometric lines, clean yet complex forms, and an ongoing investigation of balance. His sculptures often begin with a literal reference and shift toward abstraction.
Greg’s relationship with the automobile is both personal and professional. He learned to weld in order to restore his first car. Alongside his studio practice, he works in technology within the automotive industry, giving him a perspective on car culture, mobility, and how looking to the past can help shape what we build for the future.
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Greg Tuthill’s work entitled Culture Eats Strategy is shaped around the Fiat 500 Bambina, a small car whose simple, compact design helped bring mobility to millions. Reimagined in a low-poly sculptural form, with its wheels turned ninety degrees in a nod to the flying car futures of 1980s science fiction, the work looks at car culture as both freedom and contradiction. Cars carry memory, identity, independence and nostalgia, yet they also sit at the centre of conversations about emissions, congestion and sustainability. Originally conceived with a recycled plastic skin, the work evolved after that material became unavailable. Its final stainless-steel skin, fixed with rivet-style bolts, introduces a new layer of meaning: a retro-futurist surface shaped by durability, commercial reality, and the ongoing tension between strategy, culture and what is practically possible.