The following temporary public artworks have been made possible by the Public Art Fund.
Gabrielle McKone: Three Stories Up
21 December 2009 - June 2010
Curated by James Gilberd
Three Stories Up features 48 photographic artworks by local photographer Gabrielle McKone stacked three-high in 16 light boxes along Courtenay Place.
The images display Wellington street scenes captured by a compact digital camera in a 'shoot from the hip' style of photography (not using the viewfinder).
Michel Tuffery: Newlands Community Centre Mural
From November 2009
Local artist Michel Tuffery has created a mural on the Newlands Coummunity Centre's exterior walls with help from students from Newlands College and wider northern suburbs.
Following consultation with the Newlands community, Michel came up with the mural design. The wider community brought Michel international stamps for the artwork, and the younger generation made sure their talent for graf-art was incorporated.
Michel says the result is a cross-cultural, inter-generational artwork by the community for the community.
Brydee Rood: Te Ra Te Ra Te Ra Black Hole!
26 November 2009 - December 2010
Brydee describes this work as "a visual ode to the cycles of the greater universe; dedicated to Te Ra (The Sun) and using solar panels as a way of looking forward and stepping lightly into the future."
Te Ra Te Ra Te Ra Black Hole! is a text-based artwork on ply boards. The boards are attached to the hoarding in front of the new Telecom building construction site at 46 Willis Street.
By day the artwork reads Te Ra (The Sun) repeated five times, painted bright orange on a blue stain background. By night blue LEDs, lit up by solar panels, read Black Hole Black Hole! The repetitive words have poetical rhythm and numerically reflect a weekly cycle.
Victor Berezovsky: Portal
2008 - 2012
Portal, painted on the outside of Freyberg Pool in Oriental Parade, is a contemporary artwork sympathetic to the building's architecture. Playing on the building's simple design, it celebrates the building's continuing role in the urban landscape.
The artwork comprises interlinking geometric shapes in three colours - red, blue and ochre. Red suggests figures and the plastic buoys that form swimming lanes, blue references the water and the sky, and ochre is a typical '60s colour - the era when the building was designed and built.
Courtenay Place Park - Light Box Project
The light box project - in Courtenay Place Park - is an intense, highly public exhibition space featuring eight 3-metre-high steel and glass LED boxes. With an urban backdrop instead of the traditional white gallery walls, this exhibition space is a New Zealand first.
The light boxes were designed as an integral part of the Courtenay Place Park and were unveiled to Wellingtonians in May 2007. The boxes encourage people to reflect on this environment, even if just for a minute.
Each exhibition lasts for six months. If you would like to propose an exhibition for the light boxes, contact the Arts Advisor.
Light Box Project - Guidelines (639Kb PDF)
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Four Plinths, Te Papa Forecourt
Commissioned by the Wellington Sculpture Trust, Regan Gentry's Green Islands is the first in a series of sculptural projects to be installed on the four plinths on Te Papa's forecourt. The installation will be changed every two years.
Each plinth displays a plant species made from number eight wire, from toetoe, pohutukawa, tussock, flax, cabbage tree and agapanthus. These species are commonly found on the main transit-lines into Wellington city. Green Islands was the artist's response to the lack of plant life in and around the Te Papa forecourt.
See the Wellington Sculpture Trust website for more information.
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