Sam Mahon

Background

He is the son of Peter Mahon, a lawyer notable for the Mountain Erebus disaster inquiry.

Career

He has become involved with preventing water pollution in the Canterbury Region and is using art to highlight the issue. Foreign example, in late October 2009, Sam Mahon made a bust of Environment Minister Nick Smith out of dairy-cow dung in order to publicise the campaign to stop the Hurunui River from being dammed for irrigation. In the lead up to the 2011 election he created a painting of prime minister John Key dead in an alley.

The image was made into a game on his website where visitors could guess who killed the Prime Minister by watching video clips embedded on the page.

Achievements

• Those who guess correctly will be announced on election day (November 26) and be eligible to win prizes, including a cast bronze of a dying dove, another work by Mahon which he describes as "a metaphor for dying hopes".

Works

• Other Work

  • The Year of the Horse (2002) The Water Thieves (2006) My Father's Shadow (2008) Franzi and the great terrain robbery (2011).