Bay of Plenty Times – Art in the City

Art Walk

The Garden & Artfest 2010 spills into Tauranga’s downtown area with artwork displayed in shop windows. Large size floral and garden photographs by local artists Jo Millerof Gate Photography, will be shown in selected windows around town. Follow the walk and also discover the creations of the Fabulous Funky Flora Fashion – wearable garments made by professional and other skilled designers in a workshop held in conjunction with Tauranga Environment Centre. Start your walk at Creative Tauranga (cnr Willow and Wharf Sts) or follow the signs from any participating shop window.

Container Art

You won’t be tripping over these artworks in a hurry! Turn the corner and be surprised by the five container sized photographs in Tauranga, Katikati and Te Puke taken by night by Jo Miller. Jo called this series of 5 photographs Nature's Garden by Night, which needs to be remembered when seeing the billboard sized photographs.Adding a burst of garden colours to the urban landscape brightening up the day, these images symbolize the joy gardens bring to our lives and signal the 2010 Garden and Artfest is underway. Find the containers in Katikati next to the main road and the giant rugby ball, in front of Mt Drury at Mount Maunganui, Teh Strand in Tauranga on the reclamation car park, Pak'n' Save carpark in Papamoa and in Te Puke next to the main road by Andrea's China shop.

supported by CREATIVE COMMUNITIES TAURANGA CITY COUNCIL and WESTERN BAY OF PLENTY DISTRICT

Competition
Mike Brown is the winner of the below competition. His stunning photograph of a fern leaf against a black background was judged by John Borren, chief photographer of the Bay of Plenty Times, and Jo Miller from Gate Photography.

The winning image is displayed as part of the Bay of Plenty Times Art in the City Art Walk in the shop window at Creative Tauranga (cnr Wharf and Willow St).

All Katikati entries will also automatically be included in the local Katikati photo competition, with prizes for the best entries which will be displayed in shop windows around town.

Terms and conditions:
1. Please submit your name, contact phone number and address with your entry. Photographs e-mailed should not be larger than 2MB initially, but ideally a larger size, high resolution version be available for printing.
2. Photographs entered must have been taken by the entrant or can be entered on behalf of the photographer. Photographs taken by other persons cannot be entered without their permission and their name given as part of the entry.
3. By submitting their photograph all entrants give the Garden&Artfest the rights to publicly display a print of their photograph as part of the Bay of Plenty Art in the City event and the ownership for this single replication. The ownership of the original photograph remains with the photographer.
4. All entries will be judged by an independent team of judges. The decision of the judges is final.
5. There are 2 competitions, one for the event located in downtown Tauranga with one overall winner being displayed in a shop window; one for an event in Katikati with up to 15 shortlisted entries publicly displayed around Katikati township. Only entrants from Katikati (from Aongatete north) will be considered for the Katikati competition. All entrants will be considered for the Tauranga competition. There is a people’s choice voting system in Katikati to determine the overall winner.
6. Any prizes offered are not exchangeable for cash.
7. Winners will be notified by 1 November and need to be able to submit a high resolution version of their photograph within a day.