Temporary Art - Current Projects

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The following temporary public artworks have been made possible by the Public Art Fund.

Four Plinths, Te Papa Forecourt

February 2010 - Early 2011

Peter Trevelyan, Mimetic Brotherhood, 2010. Photo by Amy Schulz Photography. Enlarge image.

Mimetic Brotherhood by Peter Trevelyan is the second installation on the Four Plinths outside Te Papa.

The work comprises four bulbous kinetic forms made from hinged and mirrored equilateral triangles that envelop each plinth. The shifting surfaces reflect the ever-changing nature of the waterfront environment.

The Four Plinths temporary sculpture project is a Wellington Sculpture Trust initiative.

Gallery - Wellington Sculpture Trust

Michel Tuffery: Newlands Community Centre Mural

From November 2009

Newlands Community Centre Mural. Enlarge image.

Local artist Michel Tuffery has created a mural on the Newlands Coummunity Centre's exterior walls with help from students from Newlands College and wider northern suburbs.

Following consultation with the Newlands community, Michel came up with the mural design. The wider community brought Michel international stamps for the artwork, and the younger generation made sure their talent for graf-art was incorporated.

Michel says the result is a cross-cultural, inter-generational artwork by the community for the community.

Victor Berezovsky: Portal

2008 - 2012

Victor Berezovsky's 'Portal', Freyberg Pool. Enlarge image.

Portal, painted on the outside of Freyberg Pool in Oriental Parade, is a contemporary artwork sympathetic to the building's architecture. Playing on the building's simple design, it celebrates the building's continuing role in the urban landscape.

The artwork comprises interlinking geometric shapes in three colours - red, blue and ochre. Red suggests figures and the plastic buoys that form swimming lanes, blue references the water and the sky, and ochre is a typical '60s colour - the era when the building was designed and built.

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