Antony Gormley’s STAY is a legacy public artwork for Ōtautahi Christchurch, installed as part of SCAPE 8: New Intimacies IMAGE: Antony Gormley, STAY, …
Public Art
Erratic
Erratic speaks to the journey of Antarctic explorer, Roald Amundsen, whose skill and use of indigenous expertise in reaching the …
D6NIEL
This larger-than-life photographic portrait unapologetically inhabits the northwest wall of the Christchurch Casino, emphasising Black joy, life and emancipation. Synthia …
Iraira
In this work, Maioha Kara takes as her starting point the iraira star pattern common in tukutuku panels (the distinctive …
Ka tahuna e ahau te ahi o Taumutu ki te kiri tuna Pāwhara i Waihora (I will light the fire with dried-smoked eel skins from Waihora Lake Ellesmere)
For SCAPE Season 2023 Tūī Matira Ranapiri-Ransfield has produced a sculptural installation depicting a personal story from her whānau, highlighting …
Hahu Ake Anoo
In a literal sense, Te Ara Minhinnick’s work unearths past narratives as a staged site of a waka burial. Ngaati …
Rooting For You
Susu’s installation invites us to consider a journey, where the material of the work magnifies an alien sentience. This artwork …
Making Fantasy A Reality
There is a clear call to action in Priscilla Rose Howe’s work for SCAPE Season 2023 – a call for …
Focus 2022
Working within the sub-theme of digital identity, Focus depicts an unreal digital female figure within a computer monitor, representing the …
Ccino & Ash 2022
This artwork explores the concept of people spending a large proportion of their time online, and pushes it further, imagining …
The Tree of Work 2022
The Tree of Work represents lives, jobs, moments in time; some joyous, some miserable. Contained within separate bubbles, people are …
Wheelbarrow of a Bag of Rocks 2022
Inspired by the artist’s own struggle with OCD, this artwork speaks to the toll that mental hard work can take …
Garden of Sensory Exchange
Consisting of a sound installation and an interactive multisensory game, Garden of Sensory Exchange draws our attention to the elements …
Cognitive Reorientation
Using the Danish television police drama Forbrydelsen (The Killing) as a jumping-off point, Clemens investigates the unseen labour involved in …
White Rose
White Rose features a sprawling digital dreamscape where Hye Rim Lee’s long-time protagonist TOKI floats and spins through hyper-coloured imaginary …
He Toki Maitai
Jon Jeet draws on his combined Ngāti Maniapoto and Fijian Indian whakapapa in the creation of this new monumental corten …
Te Pu o Te Wheke
First exhibited at the Hawai’i Triennial in 2022, Te Pu o Te Wheke honours the Pacific Sisters’ long-standing and ongoing …
Ach Bog!
Made from thick polyurethane vinyl, a material commonly used in industrial settings to separate refrigerated areas from other spaces, Ach …
A low brick wall
Wendelien Bakker’s A low brick wall is a site-specific work that supplements and complements the existing brick structure. It is …
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES and CHANGE YOUR CAREER!
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES and CHANGE YOUR CAREER! utilise the minimalist black text on white background with jazz accompaniment that has …
Te Aika
A stunning white Ngutu, or ceremonial entranceway, features at the Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre. Called Te Aika, which means …
Remembering our roots 2021
The winners of the senior category of Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists 2021 were Agatha Weston and Sienna Oshannessey, aged 16 from …
Tama-nui-te-rā 2021
The winner of Junior’s category of Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists 2021 is Te Ao Rangimarie Davis, aged 8 from Te Pā …
Stand Together 2020
Yzza Batac, aged 11 years old, from Merrin School, responded to the brief of Secrets and Lies with the design …
Pen 2021
A half-melted pen found at a laundromat in Avondale, West Auckland where Janet Lilo lives, inspired this more epically-scaled sculpture. …
Take your chances with me 2021
Kate Newby embraces the unnoticed, inviting us to look again at our surroundings. In Ōtautahi Christchurch the city has changed …
‘Ao Kakala Ōtautahi, 2021
Inspired by nimamea’a tuikakala, the Tongan fine art of flower designing, Sione Monū has been experimenting with floral patterns for …
Resilience Training, 2021
Resilience Training is a voluntary public performance artwork that intends to help us prepare for the seemingly unending series of …
Destination, 2021
Nabuqi employs an array of manufactured and readymade objects in Destination, a work first created in 2018 and exhibited at …
ALSO HER DAUGHTER, 2021
Cast and reformed from familiar, but often unnoticed objects, Louise Palmer’s recent installations suggest a reconsideration of the meanings and …
The Circular Ruins, 2021
In this newly-commissioned audio-visual work by Bona Park, The Circular Ruins, a girl knocks, tickles, caresses, scratches, and rubs on …
The Native Section, 2021
The Native Section focuses on the history of the area we now know as Hagley Park before and after colonial …
The Kiss
The Kiss by Gill Gatfield for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 Gill Gatfield The Kiss 2015, absoluto nero/black granite, 2000mm …
The Horses Stayed Behind
The Horses Stayed Behind by Cat Auburn for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 This work was a result of Cat …
Te Ia Tangata
Te Ia Tangata by Rachel Rakena for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 Rachael Rakena Te Ia Tangata 2016. Image: video …
Stainless
Stainless by Judy Darragh for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 Judy Darragh makes art that engages deeply with popular culture. …
Square Triangle aka Sunbeam
Square Triangle aka Sunbeam by George Lewis for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 – Re:ACTIVATE Kids The original concept sketch …
Sign o’ the Times
Sign o’ the Times by Mark Catley for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 Signs show us our way forward, prevent …
Portrait of Mass Ascending
Portrait of Mass Ascending by David McCracken for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 Auckland-based David McCracken contributed a suite of …
Plain View
Plain View by David McCracken for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 The pieces of Plain View were based on early …
Selected Works 2013-2016
Selected Works 2013-2016 by Holly Best for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 Holly Best Selected Works 2013-2016, dimensions variable. Photos …
Selected Works 1965-1990
Selected Works 1965-1990 by Greer Twiss for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 Greer Twiss Site Sight (detail) 1977. Photo courtesy …
Diminish and Ascend
Diminish and Ascend by David McCracken for SCAPE Public Art Season 2016 The vertiginous Diminish and Ascend has previously drawn …
A (very) brief history of Aotearoa
A (very) brief history of Aotearoa by Kereama Taepa for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Kereama Taepa A (very) brief …
We Are One
We Are One by Alex Sands for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists [image caption] Alex Sands …
Unchained Melody
Unchained Melody by Conor Clarke for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Conor Clarke Unchained Melody 2019. Image: video still, courtesy …
Touch-Stones
Touch-Stones by Audrey Baldwin for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Image courtesy of the artist and SCAPE Public Art. ‘Children …
The Pool
Poised ready for the plunge, Natalie Guy’s diving board is pointedly not positioned above a swimming pool. Stripped of its …
The Order of Things
The Order of Things by Neil Pardington for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Neil Pardington The Order of Things 2019. …
Having a whale of a time!
Having a whale of a time! by Charlotte Bobichon for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 – Re:ACTIVATE Kids [image caption] …
Strength in Sisterhood
Strength in Sisterhood by Rosetta Brown, Hazel White and Georgina Jolly for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring …
Sticks of Rock
Sticks of Rock by Tessa Marshall for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists Tessa Marshall Sticks of …
Spooky Action at a Distance
Spooky Action at a Distance by Ciaran Begley for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Ciaran Begley Spooky Action at a …
Physiological Manipulation of Space
Physiological Manipulation of Space by Emily Higham for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists Emily Higham Physiological …
Negotiation
Negotiation by Helena McCondach for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists Helena McCondach Negotiation 2019. Image courtesy …
Modulating Monolith
Modulating Monolith by Tyler Jackson for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Tyler Jackson Modulating Monolith 2019. Image courtesy of SCAPE …
Made in China
Made in China by Sui Jianguo for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Sui Jianguo Made in China. Image courtesy of …
Ka mua Ka muri
‘I looked at the sculpture that stood in front of me, thinking of people who lost families and friends, imagining …
Hybrid Encounters
Hybrid Encounters by Chiara Corbelletto for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Chiara Corbelletto Hybrid Encounters 2019. Image courtesy of the …
Flow my Tears
Flow my Tears by Susan Philipsz for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Images courtesy of SCAPE Public Art. Photos by …
Don’t let it get you
Don’t let it get you by Mary-Louise Browne for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Mary-Louise Browne Closer 2009. Image courtesy …
Princess XL ( fountain #1 and #2)
Princess XL ( fountain #1 and #2) by Scott Eady for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 Princess XL (fountain #1 …
Our Stories Makes Us
Our Stories Makes Us by Ollie Moginie for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artist Senior When he …
Kākahu
Kākahu by Kayla Folwell & Manaia Mahuika-Davies for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists Senior The korowai …
Alphabetica Redux Re:PRESENTED
Alphabetica Redux Re:PRESENTED by Paul Hartigan for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 Alphabetica Redux revisited the process of drawing with light explored …
Lelia
Lelia by Christopher Ulutupu for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 Christopher Ulutupu’s video/performance art practice explores ongoing themes around landscape, photography, and …
Encircling Re:PRESENTED
Encircling Re:PRESENTED by Michel de Broin for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 This work first appeared in North Hagley Park as …
A Cage for Voices & The Red Zone
A Cage for Voices & The Red Zone by Tom Dale for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 UK-based artist Tom …
Buzz Carpet
Buzz Carpet is an interactive ground mural which truly engulfs its site. A ludic tension between the planar and dimensional spaces …
Monument to the Present
Monument to the Present by Tom Dale for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 UK-based artist Tom Dale contributed three works …
O, I, M, I
O, I, M, I by Ben Pearce for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 Ben Pearce, based in Hastings, has pursued …
Bathing Figure
Christchurch-based Sam Harrison is a leading proponent of contemporary figuration, well known for his observant, emotionally resonant sculptures and woodcuts. …
Mauri Moana
Mauri Moana by Piri Cowie for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 Ōtautahi-based artist Piri Cowie undertook an ambitious, interwoven project with multiple …
Fitu (Seven)
Fitu (Seven) by Christopher Ulutupu for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 Christopher Ulutupu’s video/performance art practice explores ongoing themes around landscape, photography, …
Verdant Geometry
Verdant Geometry by Erica van Zon for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 Wellington-based artist Erica van Zon made a suite of sculptures …
Plot
Plot by Brett Graham for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 Plot invites us to consider how we think about and …
The Old and the New
The Old and the New by Ana Iti for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 [image caption] Ana Iti The Old …
Mixed Feelings
Mixed Feelings by Tony Cragg for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 Mixed Feelings 2012 was in residence at Christ’s College Quadrangle, …
The Glass Pavilion
The Glass Pavilion by Gregor Kregar for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 Gregor Kregar The Glass Pavilion 2017. Image courtesy …
Changing Pathways
Changing Pathways by Katie Temple for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artist Junior The braided river can …
Terminator T-Rex
Terminator T-Rex by Gregor Kregar for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 [image caption] Gregor Kregar Terminator T-Rex 2017. Image courtesy …
Tunnel
Tunnel by Hannah Beehre for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 A sculptural installation within Canterbury Museum, Tunnel created a walk-through rendering of …
Three Squares Gyratory, Variation 2
Three Squares Gyratory, Variation 2 by George Rickey for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 George Rickey was a leading sculptor …
Terminal Blue
Terminal Blue by Tom Dale for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 Tom Dale Terminal Blue 2017. Image courtesy of the …
Myopia
Myopia by Anton Parsons for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 Anton Parsons Myopia 2017. Image courtesy of artist and Jonathan …
Lost World: T-Rex, Lost World: Brachiosaurus, Lost World: Stegosaurus, and Lost World: Triceratops
Lost World: T-Rex, Lost World: Brachiosaurus, Lost World: Stegosaurus, and Lost World: Triceratops by Gregor Kregar for SCAPE Public Art …
KAOKAO
KAOKAO by Robert Jahnke for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 [image caption] Robert Jahnke KAOKAO 2017. Photo by Heather Milne. …
Low Pressure High Pressure
Low Pressure High Pressure by Josh O’Rourke for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 – Re:ACTIVATE Emerging Artist Josh O’Rourke’s wall …
Forces
Forces by Nathan Ingram for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 – Re:ACTIVATE Emerging Artist The design by Nathan Ingram – …
In/Visible Landscape
In/Visible Landscape by Wayne Barrar for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 Canterbury Museum and Hagley Park hosted selections of works …
t-OWN Planning
t-OWN Planning by Roslisham Ismail, AKA Ise for SCAPE 7 Drawing on his own observations of the city and numerous conversations …
Level Playing Field
Level Playing Field by David Cross for SCAPE 7 For six weeks only, Christchurch hosted the world premiere of the action-packed sport, Powerslide, the …
Imprint
Imprint by Ruby Williams for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 – Re:ACTIVATE Teen Ruby Williams based her Re:ACTIVATE Teen artwork …
Inflected Forms
Inflected Forms by Shaun Gladwell for SCAPE 7 As an accomplished artist and skateboarder, Shaun Gladwell’s practice has long been …
I was using six watts when you Received me
I was using six watts when you Received me by Maddie Leach & Jem Noble for SCAPE 7 A SCAPE 7 …
Gallery 91
Gallery 91 by Julia Holderness & Petrena Fishburn for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 In 1959 Barbara and André Brooke …
Flauntatiousness
Flauntatiousness by Wayne Youle for SCAPE 7 Fast and loud, Wayne Youle’s work was literally on the move. This mobile …
Fielder
Fielder by Miranda Parkes for SCAPE 7 Miranda Parkes’ large billboard-like screens, located across three sites, inserted blocks of colour …
Conduct Cumulus
Conduct Cumulus by Seung Yul Oh for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 Seung Yul Oh Conduct Cumulus 2017. Photo by …
Duck Soup
Duck Soup by Rob Hood for SCAPE 7 Previously located across five sites in central Christchurch, Rob Hood’s bucket and …
‘ARE PASIFIKA
‘ARE PASIFIKA by Nina Oberg Humphries for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 [image caption] Nina Oberg Humphries ‘ARE PASIFIKA 2017. …
Common Coop Co-op
Common Coop Co-op by Dan Arps for SCAPE 7 The gathering of sculptural objects that constituted Dan Arps’ Common Coop …
Acquiesce
Acquiesce by Anton Parsons for SCAPE Public Art Season 2017 Anton Parsons Acquiesce 2017. Image courtesy of artist and Jonathan …
Common Co-op Coop
Common Co-op Coop by Fiona Connor for SCAPE 7 Fiona Connor looked at the way functional objects, such as rubbish …
Can Anybody Hear Me?
Can Anybody Hear Me? by Zina Swanson for SCAPE 7 Science and pseudoscience met in Zina Swanson’s unexpected performances that …
Bodytok Quintet: The Human Instrument Archive
Bodytok Quintet: The Human Instrument Archive by Phil Dadson for SCAPE 7 For this project artist/musician Phil Dadson used interactive …
Avonside Drive
Avonside Drive by Hannah Kidd for SCAPE 8 Hannah Kidd, Tanya Brown, Avonside Drive series, 2015. Commissioned by SCAPE Public …
Mobile Tangles
Mobile Tangles by Pauline Rhodes for SCAPE 8 Pauline Rhodes Mobile Tangles 2015. Commissioned by SCAPE Public Art. Image courtesy …
Gardensity
Gardensity by Ash Keating for SCAPE 6 First designed prior to the initial 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, Gardensity was envisioned as a …
Muegano
Muegano was envisioned by Zamora following a visit to Christchurch in 2009 where he reflected on the architecture of houses …
Waiting for a Bus
Waiting for a Bus by Ahmet Öğüt for SCAPE 6. This sculpture reflected Öğüt’s interest in patterns of social and public movement …
The Lambs’ Book of Life (Folder Wall)
The Lambs’ Book of Life (Folder Wall) was both a painting and a sculpture on an enormous scale. Previously designed for …
The High Country
The High Country by Joanna Langford for SCAPE 6 The High Country was an aerial utopian city installation that appeared to be …
Swamp
For the sixth SCAPE Ruth Watson was to present Swamp, an artwork for visitors to and residents of Christchurch to engage …
Green Structure 2
Green Structure 2 by Richard Maloy for SCAPE 6. Using different spaces of central Christchurch as the setting for 45 Attempts …
Ōtākaro Plant Parade
Ōtākaro Plant Parade by Fiona Jack for SCAPE 8 Fiona Jack Ōtākaro Plant Parade 2015. Commissioned by SCAPE Public Art. …
Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course to the centre of an ever setting sun!
Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course to the centre of an ever setting sun! by Nathan Pohio for …
Kotuku
Kotuku Re:PRESENTED by Caroline Rothwell for SCAPE Public Art Season 2018 Caroline Rothwell’s Kotuku was a two-tonne fibreglass sculpture, which …
Stand Together
As one of our Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists, 11-year old Yzza Batac’s Stand Together was created as part of SCAPE Public …
The Interior
The Interior by Sorawit Songsataya for SCAPE Public Art Season 2020 IMAGE: Sorawit Songsataya, The Interior, 2020. Image courtesy of …
Frank, Love and the apocalypse
Frank, Love and the apocalypse by Natasha Matila-Smith for SCAPE Public Art Season 2020 IMAGE: Natasha Matila-Smith, Frank, Love and …
The Strong Woman
As one of our Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists, 18-year old Mollie Shaw’s The Strong Woman was created as part of SCAPE …
on an east wind
on an east wind by Melissa Macleod for SCAPE Public Art Season 2020 IMAGE: Melissa Macleod, on an east wind, …
Return home Tūī, let your song remind us of histories unseen
Return home Tūī, let your song remind us of histories unseen, by Martin Awa Clarke Langdon for SCAPE Public Art …
Starfruit and Starfruit Fruiterer
Starfruit and Starfruit Fruiterer by Jacquelyn Greenbank for SCAPE Public Art Season 2020 IMAGE: Jacquelyn Greenbank, Starfruit and Starfruit Fruiterer, …
Lacuna
About the artwork In Lacuna, Dane Mitchell continues to explore ideas of absence, disappearance and obsolescence that have become central …
Unfolded Secrets
As one of our Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists, 11-year old Annabelle Britt’s Unfolded Secrets was created as part of SCAPE Public …
Texts of Epistolary
Texts of Epistolary by Zoe Crook (nom de plume: itistwothings) consists of two letters, which were developed in direct response to …
Memory
Memory by Sarah Greig is a graphic representation of harakeke/flax growing from a chimney. It was designed to remind us …
Idle_FLUX
Courtney Spargo’s suspended canopy installation explores the organic form of the Ōtākaro/Avon River’s water through weaving techniques associated with a …
bon voyage
Rachael Dewhirst’s bon voyage is a positive ‘well-wish’ for a journey and a true arts and industry collaboration. Image: Rachael Dewhirst, …
VAKA ‘A HINA
Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine’s VAKA ‘A HINA is a symbol of solidarity and togetherness, transcending cultures and spirituality. It is a …
Tree Houses for Swamp Dwellers
Consisting of 10 modular objects that read and function both as trees and as houses, Julia Morison’s work can be engaged …
STAY (Avon-Ōtākaro installation)
Antony Gormley’s STAY is a legacy public artwork for Ōtautahi Christchurch, installed as part of SCAPE 8: New Intimacies IMAGE: …
Passing Time
Anton Parsons’ Passing Time was created for the sixth SCAPE Season, and installed only a few days before the shaking that …
Nucleus
Phil Price’s sculpture was unveiled to the public on 29 September 2006 and gifted formally to the city at the duration …
Kaleidoscopic Nights
Rachael Dewhirst’s winning design for the inaugural Resene Art in the Streets SCAPE Christchurch Mural. IMAGE: Rachael Dewhirst, Kaleidoscopic Nights, …
Flour Power
Regan Gentry’s sculpture was the first new public piece commissioned by the Christchurch City Council’s Public Art Advisory Group. Funding …
Call me Snake
Judy Millar’s first public art commission, created for SCAPE 8: New Intimacies. IMAGE: Judy Millar, Call me Snake, 2015. Commissioned …
Fanfare
One of Aotearoa’s largest public sculptures, Neil Dawson’s Fanfare is a permanent landmark which can be seen standing tall over the …
Solidarity Grid
Over a period of three years, beginning with SCAPE 7 in 2013, a single streetlamp from each of 21 cities …