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    • Neil Miller,
    • Neil Miller, Te tiaho o Matariki (concept drawing) 2011, image courtesy of the artist
    • Neil Miller, Te tiaho o Matariki (the brightness of the Pleiades) 2011, Hamilton; rendering courtesy of the artist and Reset Urban Design
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Neil Miller (NZ)

Te tiaho o Matariki, Hamilton

 
Neil Miller, “Te tiaho o Matariki” (the brightness of the Pleiades): The sculpture represents Pleiades in the form of a growing vine, with the stars of Matariki forming the fruit on the vine. It honours the city’s first inhabitants (Garden Place was first used by Maori… Read more
    • Gill Gatfield, Silhouette, 2011; Smales Farm Station; photo by Gill Gatfield
    • Full-scale mock-up on site in August 2010; from left: Anthony Blom, Rob Garrett, Gill Gatfield, Daniel Henderson, Chris Smale, Greg Smale; photo courtesy of Rob Garrett
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Gill Gatfield (NZ)

Silhouette (2011) public artwork

 
Gill Gatfield (NZ), Silhouette, 2011; Smales Farm Station Public Art Award 2011 There is something for the eye, the hand and the head. [Gill Gatfield] Gill Gatfield was jury-selected and commissioned to create “Silhouette” as the result of winning a public competition in 2010. The judging… Read more
    • Richard Orjis, inaugural Bledisloe walkway project, 2010; courtesy of Melanie Roger Gallery
    • Richard Orjis, Park 2010; image courtesy of Melanie Roger Gallery
    • Daniel Crooks, Bledisloe Walkway Light Boxes, 2011; photo by Rob Garrett, P1310947
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Lightboxes brighten walk

Bledisloe walkway public art programme

 
Richard Orjis was commissioned to develop new work for the inaugural exhibition in the new public art Bledisloe Walkway Lightboxes and he created "Park," a set of five luxurious images for the walkway. "Park" featured five photographs depicting an opulent fantasy world. One image showed jewel-encrusted… Read more
    • Contemporary Visual Art & Culture Broadsheet 39.3, 2010, title page
    • Hector Zamora proposal for 6th SCAPE Biennial 2010
    • Joanna Langford, The High Country concept image, SCAPE Biennial 2010
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SCAPE 2010 Preview

Awakening a pedestrian citizenry

 
SCAPE 2010 Public Art Walkway raises questions about living and walking in the inner city and the ways festivals of temporary public art engage with the city as a given situation. Framing a biennial as a walk of art is logical in a city such as… Read more
    • Paula Roush, A field of interconnected realities (2010), Living Room, Auckland; video still by Rob Garrett
    • Paula Roush, A field of interconnected realities (2010), Living Room, Auckland; video still by Rob Garrett
    • Paula Roush, A field of interconnected realities (2010), Living Room, Auckland; video still by Rob Garrett
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Paula Roush (UK)

Public art project, Auckland 2010

 
Paula Roush was invited by Rob Garrett to participate in Auckland City Council’s Living Room 2010 public art programme. The overall curator of Living Room 2010: A Week of Kindness was Pontus Kyander, the then former Manager Public Art. Max Ernst's 1934 graphic novel Une semaine… Read more
    • Tatzu Nishi,
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Art that made us laugh

Tatsu Nishi in Sydney, 2009-2010

 
“I get it!” is not always possible with contemporary art, and sometimes I don’t mind being puzzled, mystified or confounded. But other times there are art works where I think I ought to get it – but feel pushed away and then annoyed by the fact… Read more
    • Ines Tartler (GER),
    • Ines Tartler (GER),
    • Ines Tartler (GER),
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Ines Tartler (DE)

Auto Garage: The Golden Garage Service 2009

 
Auto Garage: The Golden Garage Service 2009 is a public art project by Ines Tartler (DE) which took place in Auckland, New Zealand in May 2009. Berlin-based Tartler presented the project with the aid of a team of Golden Garage Service Attendants especially recruited for the project.… Read more
 

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