Tracey steps down after 11 years

After 11 years at the helm at of Creative Tauranga, Tracey Rudduck-Gudsell is stepping aside.

The chief executive handed in her resignation yesterday.


Tracey Rudduck-Gudsell has been instrumental on getting the nine Hairy Macleary bronze statues for the Tauranga waterfront.

Her resignation follows the instalment of the Hairy Maclary sculpture project on the Tauranga waterfront, something she says has been a significant highlight and challenge in her career.

She says having achieved what many consider wasn't possible, 'I think it's a good time for me to move on”.

Tracey will step down as chief executive of Creative Tauranga at the end of August.

Creative Tauranga is expected to be advertising for a new chief executive soon.

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27 comments

By resigning.....

Posted on 24-06-2015 10:06 | By Jimmy Ehu

you have achieved what many ratepayers did not think was possible, Stephen Town and " loose Lennie" maybe looking for someone!!!


Be quick TCC

Posted on 24-06-2015 10:10 | By YOGI BEAR

While the place achieves a new level of "vacancy" close it.


Rastus

Posted on 24-06-2015 12:15 | By rastus

Yogi - What a very sensible idea. Over Christmas/New year when there were obviously heaps of visitors the place was closed - what a joke- art only when it suits us!


there's a space....

Posted on 24-06-2015 12:52 | By yikes61

at the trough. Leave the space empty!


Brilliant, Yogi

Posted on 24-06-2015 14:36 | By nerak

Wasted space at the best of times, agree it should be closed.


AND NOT A MOMENT TO SOON

Posted on 24-06-2015 15:29 | By ROCCO

Not a moment too soon either a complete waste of time and space.Drove the Hairy McLary fiasco to the max and has scarpered before it all hits the fan.


GOODBYE GOODBYE GOODBYE

Posted on 24-06-2015 16:26 | By kellbell

leaving you goodbye hurrah hurrah hurrah and don't replace her.


Creative Tauranga

Posted on 24-06-2015 17:55 | By Capt_Kaveman

Close it down


The internet is a dangerous place, especially for women.

Posted on 24-06-2015 20:21 | By Steve Morris

Interesting phenomenon occurring here yet again. A bunch of 'gentlemen' who are afraid of their own names regularly bashing their keyboards in impotent rage whenever this high profile Tauranga women dares to express an opinion. Misters M, B, P/S? and friends are displaying here the latest incarnation of the millenia old tradition of female bashing. Gentlemen, you are heroes!


I Remember...

Posted on 24-06-2015 20:55 | By DT

...when I considered being an anonymous keyboard hero and joining the dregs of internet society by abusing other people. But I thought better of it when I left primary school.


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Posted on 24-06-2015 21:44 | By Rusty Kane

Steve didn't you know .. in today's would .. "criticism as a complement" .. at least that's the way Art and councils now see it .. a badge of honour if you will .. From what I have heard those that have worked with Creative Tauranga directly have nothing but praise for the way Tracey and her staff conduct themselves in a very understanding professional manner .. unlike the main Art Gallary .. which has a much larger capital outlay from the ratepayers ..


Steve Morris

Posted on 25-06-2015 07:47 | By PositiveNotNegative

I totally agree with you Steve - well said. And the worst thing is that these people usually speak from a place of complete ignorance, rarely knowing anything about the things that these women (and organisations) have achieved.


PositiveNot Negative

Posted on 25-06-2015 08:36 | By dgk

I agree. I know my own knowledge of art is minimal, and the art that I like is smaller than that. Thus, I really have no idea what Creative Tauranga is trying to do as I don't understand the subject matter. I know Hairy isn't my scene, but that's just a small part of what they do.


Back to the 1950s

Posted on 25-06-2015 08:37 | By Steve Morris

That's where some of these comments (and possibly commenters) belong. My grandparents tell me there was no internet to post nasty anonymous comments on back then; but I'm told such people used to cut letters out of magazines and newspapers, glue them together into words and mail them anonymously to unsuspecting citizens - same thing really, just a different century.


Steve is right to call out nasty comments

Posted on 25-06-2015 11:31 | By Annalist

I prefer reasoned and sensible comments, but I find the brainless ones tiresome. I don't think its gender based though. Unfortunately this detracts from genuine concerns and questions ratepayers might have. I've never liked that there is a gallery at creative tauranga which I believe competed with private galleries. The private gallery around the corner closed down. It's hard to compete with rates funded competition. Steve might like to look into that. Personally I thank the CEO of creative tauranga for her years of employment and wish her well. I'm also looking forward to the economic and tourism boom which will come from the statues. After ticking off the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen tourists can come to Tauranga and see the Hairy Mclary ones.


Annalist

Posted on 25-06-2015 20:49 | By YOGI BEAR

Perhaps with all of this inbound tourism by the tens of thousands a week, maybe someone needs to get something of an entertainment values some where handy before they all head off to Roto-vages


Steve....

Posted on 28-06-2015 16:20 | By sambo's back

come down off your throne, please give me a list of things achieved by Tracey over the last 11 years having had a salary of 11 x ( how ever much?)what return has the city had on its investment, you can praise as much as you like in your childish manner, but the lease renewal for the "Cargo Shed" I hear did not go that well, plus the "Hairy escapade" which we will never see the actual total cost...


tonyb

Posted on 29-06-2015 11:15 | By YOGI BEAR

The cost to TCC has been huge, measured to a sum well beyond the salary, the 11 years (like any bureaucrat) spending 11 years scheming at a desk on how to make the little empire bigger so as the salary increases and the perceived 'mana' grows, it is a self generating system of self praise and self benefit. They call it a career.


Yogi bear

Posted on 29-06-2015 16:30 | By robin bell

We all know by now you and your matey mates measure everything in dollars and cents. Your greatest thrill in life, reading your bank statements every day. You will contribute to the cultural growth of Tauranga. Well done to Tracey and team. Hope we get another with equal or more ambition. Robin Bell.


Robin Who?

Posted on 30-06-2015 00:25 | By YOGI BEAR

Well Robin I would have to congratulate you, you are on this rare occasion 50% right. You got the dollars (Waitangi schemed ripping off the NZ hard working taxpayers via the Waitangi Tribunal) and I got the sense. Now isn't that the truth of it.


DOGS BREAKFAST ?

Posted on 30-06-2015 16:24 | By CONDOR

C'MON Councillor Steve Morris why don't you face reality and provide some tangible evidence of what Creative Tauranga has achieved in the last decade.How much does it cost to run the outfit annually(its budget)and what tangible or positive outcomes(if any)have resulted.


Nail in the coffin stuff

Posted on 01-07-2015 20:16 | By ROCCO

The mournful pooch probably appreciates what a dog Creative Tauranga has been since its inception.Close the box and ship the thing somewhere else and let them fund it.


Loose nails?

Posted on 03-07-2015 14:05 | By YOGI BEAR

Looks like the lid has been blown off on this one ROCCO, not just loose but left flying west or something.


Nailed it?

Posted on 04-07-2015 16:22 | By YOGI BEAR

And missed the mark folks, that could be viewed as a good thing or a bad thing depending on your view and needs. Whatever the case the best solution here is shut the lid quick, get the nails in the right place and enough of them and ship to the other side of the world ASAP.


Just make sure,

Posted on 05-07-2015 08:36 | By robin bell

when the "lid" is closed YOGI BEAR is well and truly locked in Robin Bell.


IN THE DOG BOX

Posted on 05-07-2015 14:42 | By kellbell

Yep everyone involved will be looking for cover when the whole circus sees the light of day.Its probably a bit like a conjuring trick with rabbits plucked out of the hat and wands waved.


Who let the dogs out?

Posted on 05-07-2015 15:26 | By YOGI BEAR

The other has clearly been so excited by it that has gone to sleep. I don't think it is the "exciting" part that put him to sleep though?


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