Talk: Saving the Hutt’s Public Art Heritage

Public artworks are more than decoration. They hold stories of place, identity and change. When the spaces around them shift, who carries responsibility for protecting heritage works, and how do we ensure they remain part of our shared future?

Join Bronwyn Holloway-Smith for an engaging and thought-provoking talk exploring Bill McCardle's mosaic mural at Avalon TV Stuido, alongside a Guy Ngan mural in Naenae and a work by E. Mervyn Taylor in Taita. Together, these three recent projects reveal different approaches to safeguarding the Hutt’s public art heritage and open a conversation about what  future-focused care and preservation of public art could look like in the years ahead.

Dr Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (Pākehā) is an award-winning conceptual artist, author, and researcher. Her interdisciplinary practice spans public art, digital media and deep-dive research, often focused on the tangled legacies of cultural memory, Pākehā identity, and the politics of preservation.

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