Public have say on art policy

Tauranga's public have the chance to offer insight into the city's artistic character and identity with Tauranga City Council's Draft Public Art Policy now open for consultation.

Running from today until 4pm on February 27, the council's draft policy is in response to requests by members of the community.


Artist Owen Dippe gets to work on his latest creation on the side of Harrington House in Tauranga. Photo: David Tauranga.

The draft policy aims to encourage public art that enhances the environment and contributes to the character and identity of Tauranga.

The draft policy sets out to ensure a clear and transparent application and assessment process for future public art proposals, and to ensure that existing and new public art in the city is maintained to an appropriate standard.

Public art includes all art forms that are in a public place – on council-owned land or in a place under the control of council.

Current examples include the mosaics on the city's footpaths, Owen Dippie's two murals on the Elizabeth Street parking building, Matariki pou on the waterfront, the dolphin fountain on The Strand, the Gourd on Spring Street, pou at Gate Pa, and the Hairy Maclary and Friends sculptures that will soon be installed on the waterfront.

Artwork on privately owned buildings and land are not covered by the Draft Public Art Policy.

To read the Draft Public Art Policy and have your say, visit: www.tauranga.govt.nz

Drop-in sessions will be held on February 11 at Baycourt from 3.30pm to 5.30pm and February 24 at Creative Tauranga from 11am to 1pm.

Coinciding with this is aseries of talks at The Incubator on February 12, followed by two-days of speakers at Tauranga Art Gallery and Baycourt on February 20-21.

Series organiser Sonya Korohina has told SunLive the talks will offer conversations between artists, public art commissioners, tangata whenua, urban designers, strategists, historians and curators from Tauranga and around the country.

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5 comments

Arts

Posted on 02-02-2015 15:19 | By DAD

i love the work these artist are doing but they should get a bite of what is put aside for the arts as should the hot house and Gardens they are all arts!


I am no artist but is

Posted on 03-02-2015 09:55 | By ow

any body interested in diverting some of the huge art gallery council subsidy to big public art like this ? What would out city look like if the art gallery was closed and all that money was spent on stuff like this ?


The answer is no policy

Posted on 03-02-2015 10:06 | By Annalist

How can true art be defined by a policy? Is this all a way of getting more money out of ratepayers? Let the true artists get on with what they do.


Yawn Yawn Naysayers -

Posted on 03-02-2015 18:19 | By Corvid

Why is it that you Naysayers always assume that anything potentially positive is going to cost the council a lot of money. Where does it say anything about getting money from ratepayers? The entire series of public art talks is funded independently and organised by volunteers from the art sector .You should all be the first people in the door to those talks so you can actually make informed comments instead of jumping to conclusions. Get off the Art Gallery bandwagon you are all so boring , even mentioning it is comparing apples and oranges. This is about a process not a big shopping spree- read the info here and come to the talks folks. You will see some admirable hardworking 'REAL' artists who don't have their hands out as you wrongly assume.


Read first then comment

Posted on 03-02-2015 18:21 | By Corvid

www.publicarttalkstauranga.co.nz


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