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The light box project in Courtenay Place Park is an intense, highly public exhibition space featuring eight 3m-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 2008. The boxes encourage people to reflect on this environment, even if just for a minute.
Each exhibition lasts for 4 - 6 months. You can view details of some of the light box exhibits and read the artists' statements below.
Exhibition Proposals
If you would like to propose an exhibition for the light boxes, contact the Arts Advisor and refer to the following general information:
- Light Box Project - Guidelines (229Kb PDF)
More Information
Eve Armstrong
Arts Advisor, City Arts
| Phone: | (04) 803 8207 |
| Email: | eve.armstrong |
Exhibits
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Ever Green is a photographic project which explores how 'nature' exists in a built environment. The artists exploit the outdoor location and physical structure of the Courtenay Place light boxes to question the ways urban dwellers experience nature. Artist Statement (79Kb PDF) | Text version (3Kb RTF) |
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Artists from New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and Korea draw on real and imagined landscapes to encourage passers-by to take a fresh look at public space. |
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Pilgrimage is a collaborative exhibition by photographers Andy Palmer and David Boyce, which explores the essence of rugby and sporting culture in New Zealand. The photographers move beyond the game itself, to look at the ways rugby permeates our lives, landscapes and national identity.
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"What would aliens make of Courtenay Place?" was one of many questions artist Bryce Galloway asked passers-by for his Courtenay Place Park Light Box Project. Other questions included "what's the most important thing you did today?" and "have you ever broken anything on Courtenay Place?" The light box project shows a selection of the responses together with a sketch of the participants. |
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All the Cunning Stunts is a collaborative exhibition developed to coincide with the second Asia Pacific Outgames. |
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The artists' brief was to address 'contemporary homosexuality'.
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Cloudfold features a series of photographs showing cloudscapes, glimpsed through close folds of material. |
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As well as providing Wellingtonians with a welcome relief from the grey skies, Cathryn explores how our ideas are viewed through a screen of cultural social and personal perspectives.
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Three Stories Up featured 48 photographic artworks, stacked three-high in the 16 light boxes. The images displayed Wellington street scenes captured by a compact digital camera in a 'shoot from the hip' style of photography. |
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Love Notes featured 16 private handwritten notes - offering an unexpectedly intimate encounter within this large-scale public display. |
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The notes expressed love through various shorthand jottings, acronyms and more elaborately drawn compositions. Shannon's photographs presented tangible evidence of seemingly anonymous intimacy. |
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Light boxes have been used for a long time in public space for commercial advertising or public service announcements. Give Us a Sign did not aim to sell products, but rather offered a platform for ideas within a busy retail and entertainment district. |
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Seven artists and/or graphic designers were invited to each contribute two or three works responding to the call to 'Give us a sign - a message, a proclamation, a warning, a proposition; a way to make things better'. Give Us a Sign - Interpretive Text (245Kb PDF) |
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Flânerie and Figments was the first light box exhibition. It featured images by eight Wellington-based emerging photographers: Andy Palmer, John Lake, Victoria Birkenshaw, Shaun Lawson, Amelia Handscomb, Steve Rowe, Jessica Silk and Clare Noonan. |
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Artists were invited to respond to Wellington's urban condition. The outcome was an exhibition that reflected a diversity of photographic techniques and subject matter - from people to landscapes - each with Wellington at its heart. |
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