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Art & Industry Biennial Trust

The Art & Industry Biennial Trust (Art & Industry) was launched in 1999 to provide a meeting ground for industry, public funders, contemporary visual artists, and be a catalyst for contemporary public art throughout Christchurch city.

The Trust’s vision for the SCAPE Christchurch Biennials is for Christchurch people to be excited, engaged and stimulated by the contemporary public art which is well regarded and known by the national and international art world.

Held in Christchurch’s central city public spaces and supported through a range of partnerships SCAPE is renowned for showcasing leading international contemporary artists as well as being a springboard for new local talent.

SCAPE has a legacy of high impact public art in Christchurch its gifting programme of six permanent artworks and commissioning of more than 150 temporary public artworks to date provides a unique point of difference for the city, enhancing the urban centre and raising the profile for public art in Christchurch. 

Philosophically what the Trust is striving for are artworks to occupy the intersections between the global and the local, without disempowering the local or diminishing the art, which needs to speak persuasively about new possibilities for a transaction between art and society.

To realise the Trust’s vision, the presentation and promotion of the SCAPE Christchurch Biennial is required to operate on two levels - a ‘laboratory’ where site-specific and socially engaged public art practice is realized within the socio political fabric of Christchurch city; and as a player networked into the art market over time, becoming a visitor destination for art lovers.

Deborah McCormick   Lady Stewart

Deborah McCormick & Adrienne, Lady Stewart
Director and Governing Patron, Art & Industry Biennial Trust

 

Vision / Executive Summary

Vision

MAIN FOCUS
Christchurch people excited engaged stimulated in contemporary public art

SECONDARY FOCUS
The national and international art world knows about it

Overall Objectives and Values:

  • Inspiring and engaging audiences;
  • with challenging and innovative artworks;
  • that are free and in public spaces;
  • accessible to as wide an audience as possible;
  • drawn from a range of local, national and international artists;
  • supported by public art education

Underpinned by:

  • Artistic excellence
  • Cultural exchange and dialogue   
  • Security of funding
  • Organisational capability
  • Relationship building with:
  • Industry
  • Stakeholders
  • In partnership with other funders, giving permanent artworks to the city
  • Partnerships
  • Professionalism
  • Public art leadership
  • Integrity
  • SCAPE a recognised brand

Executive summary for the 6th SCAPE

  • One Major Permanent Public Artwork Gifted to the City
  • Linked Trail of Visually Connected Temporary Public Artworks (SCAPE Public Art Walkway) (Up to 6 high impact artworks in total 1/3rd local artists, 1/3rd national artists, 1/3rd international artists)
  • Promote access and engagement with this art through an Education and Public Programmes framework
  • Stimulate awareness and attendance through a Marketing & Communications campaign
  • Underpin all this by streamlined process, i.e. Organisational and Staff Core Capacity and Capability