By Duncan Steward. The artwork evoked the streamlet that once trickled down to the sea before it was land-filled, making way for what is now Donkin Street.
Category: Route 67 Artwork
48 – Welcome Carpet
By Lisbet Demeyer. As it title reflects, the Quartz Carpet and bead artwork is a welcoming celebration and luxurious experience hinting at the cultural context of the Eastern Cape and leading diverse local cultures and visitors on to the Donkin Reserve.
45 – Windward
By Anthony Coke. The shapes of these sculptural benches hint a Port Elizabeth’s nautical history while the title refers to the city’s popular name, the Windy City.
37 – 34 Lights
Collaboration. Voting Queue and the Mosaic Stairs, telling a story about past, present and future.
36 – Mosaic Stairs
By Jane Du Rand, Nandipha Judy Mnono, Nombuso Erica Jacobs, Pumlani Kwayiyo, Zandile Bianca Snam, Mthetheleli Williams, Siyolo Nicollas Ketabahle, Bugalekaya Patrick Loli, Mxolisi Malcolm Mandela, Mzwandile Matoto. The stairway is an experimental journey that starts in darkness and turbulence and progress to a new dawn and explosion of colour, hope and new beginnings.
40 – Whites Road Wall
By Mark Wilby in collaboration with Bongani Njalo, Bamanye Ngxale, Jason Olivier, Gabriel Chaponda, Siya Mboniswa. History is often shaped by momentous events, while cities with their alleys, streets and venues are formed by the layered rhythms of daily necessity. This rhythm of place, shaped by the everyday, becomes the song of the city.
44 – Voting Line
By Anthony Harris and Konrad Geel. The life-size laser-cut steel figures form a symbolic voting line that evokes a memory of voters as they were seen in the country’s first democratic elections in 1994.
39 – Election Queue – Votes of the Future
By The Workplace Architects. The Voting Queue represents the voting line that was formed at the 1994 elections. Votes of the Future – A second application on to the Voting Queue path, saw over 3,000 of Nelson Mandela Bay’s youth leave their mark as future voters.
38 – Amphitheatre Wall
By Leminah Chifadza, Keith Vilahakis, Paula Paton. A public art experience, where humour, vibrance and colour meet the gritty nature of everyday street life through a graphic and illustrative interpretation of Port Elizabeth’s inner city ambience.
34 – Chapel Street Crossing
By Mthetheleli Williams. A pattern of colourful paving bricks flow from all directions over the crossing in Chapel Street. This represents the gathering of masses that are voted in the 1994 elections.