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Supporting public art activity in all its forms contributes to our vision of Auckland being the world’s most liveable city.
Our vision is to inspire public art throughout Auckland so that everyone can experience thought-provoking, culturally vibrant, enjoyable, and challenging public art and public space.
We define public art as artistic works or activities experienced by the public within our built and
natural environments. These may be permanent or temporary.
Our definition classifies:
Public art can include forms or approaches that are:
The benefits of public art include:
Our long-term goal over the 10-year lifetime of the Public Art Policy is to achieve a target of 1 per cent
of our total eligible capital expenditure allocated to public art.
Many parts of the Auckland Council family are involved in the development of public art, including
our elected members, council business units, and council controlled organisations (CCOs), such as Panuku and Auckland Transport.
We also work with a wide range of stakeholders and partners including mana whenua, funders, private trusts and donors, and of course with artists.
The Public Art Policy aims to ensure we are all working together to achieve the same vision and outcomes.
For our teams and CCOs this means:
Our public art is unique and distinctive — it responds to our place.
This includes public art that:
Our public art is artistically strong and innovative while celebrating our cultural richness and creativity.
This includes art that: