Exemption no: 19/05/022

Date granted: 10/05/2019

Date of expiry: 10/05/2022

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 12/06/2019

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 41

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Hobart City Council to advertise for and engage an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artist, craft practitioner or designer (or a collaboration of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artists, craft practitioners or designers) to create a new artwork or install an existing artwork within the Elizabeth Street Mall Information Center development on the basis that:

• The aim of the project is to acknowledge, pay recognition and respect to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and culture in Tasmania through a creative re-imagining of place and space; and
• The work will honour, celebrate and respect the 60,000 years of continuing Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander culture and spirituality within Tasmania; and
• One of the aims of the project is to inspire curiosity and connection with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander culture; and
• The successful artist(s) will identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, and either currently reside or have been born in Tasmania.