6 June 2024
File Ref: IRC-6501
Nic Lane
[FYI request #26239 email]
Tēnā koe Mr Lane
Thank you for your email of 15 May 2024 to Wel ington City Council | Te Kaunihera o Pōneke (the
Council) requesting the following information:
1. It seems like what you’ve inviting me to do is have a stroll across numerous websites for what
should be accessible data to ensure that arts have full and equal enjoyment for all
Wellingtonians and our guests to the city.
2. Can you please supply timelines or a work plan on when this data wil be publicly available?
3. How many murals have been funded by the City Council since your Accessibility Policy was
developed? And how many have descriptions related to visual elements?
Your request has been considered under the Local Government Of icial Information and Meetings Act
1987 (LGOIMA).
You are correct in that at present, information about public art, including murals, supported by the
Council is all contained on the Council’s website and is accessible across various webpages.
The council is aware that this information needs to be updated and have prioritised this work to take
place in the new financial year, beginning 1 July 2024.
Since the Council’s
Accessibility Action Plan was put in place in 2019, approximately 19 murals have
been supported in some way by the Council, however as some of the murals were on hoarding (the
barriers that extend around building sites for extended periods of time), the murals no longer exist as
the hoarding has since been removed.
Of those artworks, most have some level of visual description on our website, for exampl
e Sheyne
Tuffery’s Wallace Street mural (2020) is described as follows:
This big mural on a retaining wall references the Pukeahu Mt Cook area may have looked like
250+ years ago. The local residents association, Mt Cook Mobilised and mana whenua
representatives brought the history of this area to life. Tuffery learned that Pukeahu was a rich
food cultivation site.
The artwork depicts a lush garden with giant native birds as guardians, fish signifying the
waterways beneath and giant Totara connecting the garden to the vast green belt that framed
Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
The Council team who leads this work is open to speaking with you in further detail, whether this be
through private email correspondence or through a meeting, so that we can discuss how public
artworks supported by Council are represented to ensure the information is accessible to all who
would like to enjoy it.
If you would be interested in continuing in a dialogue with the Council about this matter, outside of the
LGOIMA process, please email us at
[email address] with your contact details and
we wil put the appropriate team in contact with you.
Nāku noa, nā
Danika Morris-Brown
Senior Advisor Official Information
Complaints & Information Assurance
Wellington City Council
