Permanent Artworks
The Art & Industry Biennial Trust has an excellent background in managing and bringing complex public art projects to fruition through long standing professional associations, successful collaborative relationships and over 10 years of consolidated experience of public art management; fundraising; policy and procedures; and design development.
For each SCAPE Christchurch Biennial, Art & Industry facilitate the commissioning of at least one new permanent public artwork to be gifted to the city as a commitment to maintaining the growth of Christchurch’s collection of quality public artworks.
Parsons’ new sculpture, Passing Time was recently installed at Wilson Reserve (entrance to CPIT) just days before the 6th SCAPE was due to open. Although the city centre was shaken during the 22 Februray 2011 Christchurch earthquake, Passing Time continues to stand tall. The work features twisting boxes depicting each year between 1906 (founding of CPIT) and 2010 (the date of the sculpture’s production).
Based in Auckland, Anton Parsons is one of...
Flour Power, by Regan Gentry, was the first new public sculpture to be commissioned by the Christchurch City Council’s Public Art Advisory Group. Funding for the work was made available from the Council’s Public Art Fund and a substantial donation from Adrienne, Lady Stewart and the Estate of the late Sir Robertson Stewart.
Flour Power is the Trust's seventh permanent artwork in Christchurch. Gentry describes his work fondly as a ‘centerpiece...
At 9m high Nucleus has an impressive presence on the corner of High, Manchester and Lichfield Streets; visually prominent to both pedestrian and motorized traffic. The sculpture was unveiled to the public on 29 September 2006 and formally gifted to the city at the duration of SCAPE 2006.
Phil Price has an impressive artistic pedigree, with work featuring widely across the Tasman in private collections as well as in New Zealand. Since graduating in 1989 from the...
Kotuku by Caroline Rothwell, commissioned for SCAPE 2002 is now permanently sited at Diana, Lady Isaac’s Christchurch property, Peacock Springs.
The kotuku is the native white heron, a bird that, in Maori culture, symbolises all things beautiful and rare. The saying 'He Kotuku rerenga tahi' refers to the white heron as a bird of single flight - a sight seen perhaps only once in a lifetime.
Inspired by the kotuku from the bird halls at...
Circuit, by Auckland artist Peter Roche, celebrated the achievments of Ernest, Lord Rutherford, the farther of atomic science and 'the greatest experimental scientist of the twentieth Century' (Time Magazie).
Commissioned for SCAPE 2004 this kinetic interactive light work was previously installed underground outside the original clocktower block of Canterbury College - now The Arts Centre of Christcurch, marking the site where Rutherford studied and...
Intended as a temporary display for SCAPE 2002, Port by Matej Andraž Vogrinčič was commissioned by the Arts Centre as a permanent feature. Matej Andraž Vogrinčič was artist in residence at The Arts Centre in October/November 2002. During his residency he created Port, which transformed one of the Arts Centre's grass quadrangles into a vivid lake filled with origami boats. The boats were made by schoolchildren in workshops with the artist at Hornby...
For the inaugural bennial renowned New Zealand artist Bill Culbert produced a blue neon sculpture for the façade of the Christchurch Convention Centre.
Commissioned by the Christchurch City Council and project managed by Art & Industry. Manipulated to form an abstract, linear shape, the neon is held in space by rods and cables and fitted to the south/west side of the...
Marcus Moore's stunning moving sculpture is permanently housed in the inner city retail complex and bus exchange, The Crossing. Made primarily of steel, the sculpture enlivens the atrium and escalator with two shafts that 'cross over' on the hour.
Each shaft is encircled with several rings incorporating coloured lights that move up and down the shaft at certain intervals....