Paul Dibble

Listener – April 13, 2002

Behind Every Strong Woman

The hard graft of Manawatu sculptor Paul Dibble.

Bronze sculptor Paul Dibble is a big gentle man with hunched shoulders and a complexion like a stretch of unsealed country road. His large colonial Palmerston North home is chocker with New Zealand contemporary and folk art – “You haven’t got a nation unless you’ve got folk art” – while his huge foundry/workshop is sited in an industrial precinct across town.… More,,,