The following temporary public artworks have been made possible by the Public Art Fund.
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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Marie Shannon: Love Notes (2005)
19 June - 19 December 2009
Curated by Heather Galbraith, City Gallery Wellington
Sixteen private handwritten notes offer an unexpectedly intimate encounter within this large-scale public display. Marie Shannon's Love Notes (2005) are a series of notes expressing love through various shorthand jottings, acronyms and more elaborately drawn compositions. Shannon's photographs present tangible evidence of seemingly anonymous intimacy.
For more information, see the City Gallery website.
- Exhibitions - Marie Shannon - City Gallery website
- Media Release - There's Love on the Street - City Gallery website
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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