A sculpture still becoming, Tablet carries encoded passage—where secrecy is a structure. Fusing ancient stone and copper with algorithmic logic, a gold code unlocks an AI–AR totem tethered to its keyholder, a threshold held in suspense as aura. Equally treasure and tool, icon and index, Tablet imagines a poetic future archive in a deep-time register.

Winning the premier award at the 2026 New Zealand Small Sculpture Prize, Tablet is presented by Waiheke Art Gallery in the awards showcase exhibition of selected Aotearoa sculpture. Awards judge, Deborah McCormick, described the artwork's mixed reality presence:

“Compact in scale yet architectonic in structure, Gatfield’s work brings stone, metal, code and virtual apparition into a single sculptural system. Its three elements — stone square, copper cube, and gold code — unlock ideas around the everyday technology of a tablet, archive and screen, imbued within the traditional sculptural material of Carrara marble. The inscribed Fibonacci-derived gold barcode lures us to seek out its meaning and decipher its code. The copper cube beneath it is not just a pedestal but an open space that allows volume to move around the sculpture.”