30 October 2025
File Ref: IRC-9051
T. Kendrew
[FYI request #32218 email]
Tēnā koe T. Kendrew,
Thank you for your email dated 4 September 2025 to Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Wellington City
Council (the Council) requesting the following information:
Any correspondence, advice, or reports from July 2023 to present regarding the potential retention,
re-use or future of the sculptures currently affixed to the City to Sea Bridge and Capital E buildings
should demolition of these proceed.
Your request has been considered under the Local Government Of icial Information and Meetings Act
1987 (LGOIMA).
On consultation with the Council’s City Arts and Te Ngākau team, below are the documents that fall in
scope of your request and my decision to release them.
Item
Document name/description
Decision
Sculptures by Para Matchitt
Released. Redactions
made under sections
7(2)(a) and 7(2)(b)(ii) of
Appendix 1
Email Correspondences
the LGOIMA.
Te Aho-a-Māui Rewi Thompson
Released. Redactions
made under section
Appendix 2
Email Correspondences
7(2)(a) of the LGOIMA.
Paving designs Toi te Rito Maihi
Released. Redactions
made under section
Appendix 3
Email Correspondences
7(2)(a) of the LGOIMA.
Capital and Prow Matt Pine
Released. Redactions
made under section
Appendix 4
Email Correspondences
7(2)(a) of the LGOIMA.
Fish Artwork John Gray
Released. Redactions
made under section
Appendix 5
Email Correspondences
7(2)(a) of the LGOIMA.
Wel ington Writers Walk
Released. Redactions
made under section
Appendix 6
Email Correspondences
7(2)(a) of the LGOIMA.
Miscellaneous
Released. Redactions
made under section
Appendix 7
Email Correspondences and Reports
7(2)(a) of the LGOIMA.
Please note, some information has been redacted under the following grounds of the LGOIMA:
• 7(2)(a) of the LGOIMA, as it contains personal information about private individuals;
• 7(2)(b)(i ) of the LGOIMA as the withholding of the information is necessary to protect
information where the making available of the information would be likely unreasonably to
prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the
information; and
• Any information out of scope of your request has been redacted and marked as such.
Public Art Panel
As noted within the ‘DRAFT Te Ngākau - Process for Artworks’ located within Appendix 7, the first step
in reviewing Te Ngākau artworks is engagement with Council’s Public Art Panel – an advisory panel of
external arts experts including mana whenua, City Gallery and Te Papa representatives, and council
officers who make recommendations to Council. The panel provided initial recommendations to City
Arts in line with public art policy procedures.
The Public Art Panel met on 23 August 2024 at which time these initial recommendations were
provided. The minutes for this meeting have been refused under section 15(1)(e) of the LGOIMA -
where the information requested by any person is comprised in a document, that information may be
made available in 1 or more of the following ways, by giving an excerpt or summary of the contents.
The panel’s recommendations against each artwork in scope of your request, were recorded within
the spreadsheet titled “Te Ngakau Artwork Recommendations and Consultation final copy as of 1 Oct
2025” located within ‘Appendix 7’.
I trust this information is helpful. If you have any concerns about the response, please contact
[Wellington City Council request email]. Alternatively, you are advised of your right to raise any concerns
with the Of ice of the Ombudsman at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Nāku noa, nā
Ol ie Marchant
Senior Advisor
Of icial Information & Privacy
Wellington City Council
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