RENEW • REVIVE • INSPIRE • REVIVE • RENEW lifetime HIS JOURNEY HIS "I would like for the Nelson Mandela Bay residents, local and EXPERIENCE international tourists to embrace Route 67, to appreciate the 67 art pieces and the artists that created them. They have done a fantastic job." Pierre Voges - MBDA CEO SSDA | 7678 Artwork location 1 Way-finding Markers 37 34 Lights 53 Athenæum Collection 2 Campanile Frieze 38 Amphitheatre Wall 54 artEC Mural 3 Wall of Texts 39 Election Queue 55 artEC Sculpture Courtyard 4 Talking Woman 1 (votes of the future) 56 Beaded Book 62 5 Talking Woman 2 40 Whites Road Wall 57 Tree of Life 6 Talking Woman 3 41 Fish Bird 58 Constitutional Court 7 16 Identities 42 Piazza Mosaic 59 Trinder 56 17 Pool of Words 43 Great Flag 60 Trinder Bench 18 Bus Station Mural 44 Voting Line 61 Rose Street 19 29 Red Location Pieces 45 Windward 62 Map 30 FishBone 46 River Memory 63 South End Glass Sculpture 55 31 Conversations with the Queen 47 Untitled 64 Uitenhage - Untitled 61 32 Vuyisile Mini 48 Welcome Carpet 65 Nkosi Sikelele 33 76 Youth 49 Mosaic Moments 66 Children’s Memorial 54 60 59 34 Chapel Street Crossing 50 Garden 67 Guernica 57 35 Tower Sculpture 51 Harmony in Nature 36 Mosaic Stairs 52 The Seated Couple 58 Central Map 48 47 46 51 50 ARTS / CULTURE / HERITAGE ROUTE 49 52 45 The Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) was established 53 43 44 in 2003 by the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. The MBDA has become the driving force behind urban regeneration in Nelson 42 Mandela Bay’s inner city. Route 67 consists of 67 Public Art Works symbolising Nelson Mandela’s 67 years of political life and his work dedicated to the struggle for Freedom in South Africa. 40 Starting at an old city icon, the Campanile Monument, the Route 67 41 ducks under fly-overs and climbs a staircase to Vuyisile Mini Square, 38 39 the centre of the city. Then squeezing through the staircase at St Mary’s, the experience of the route erupts in a celebration of colour, art and heritage that meanders up the Donkin to the great flag at the top of the 37 hill. From here the journey continues along the old streets of the city past art galleries and parks to the culminate at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum. Route 67 also reaches further, linking the 36 journey in Uitenhage, South End and The Red Location Precinct. 34 35 South End Map 33 Uitenhage Map 31 32 63 67 66 64 65 30 ARTS CULTURE HERITAGE ROUTE 3 16 19 29 Art Map 18 3 Funded by A proud project of 2 5 Tel: 041 582 5275 4 ** 6 www.nmbt.co.za 1 ** ** 17 www.mbda.co.za 67 Artworks to see WAY FINDING MARKERS VUYISILE MINI VOTING LINE 67 BEADED QUOTES 1 32 NMMU Sculpture Collective 44 Anthony Harris / Konrad Geel 56 a collective of bead workers The Wayfinding Markers start at the Campanile monument and follow the Arts Journey through This piece forms a part of Conversations The life-size laser-cut steel figures form a symbolic This series of artworks are a direct response by the city and the Donkin Reserve to the Nelson with the Queen. voting line that evokes a memory of voters as 30 beaders from the Eastern Cape to 67 quotes Mandela Metropolitan Museum. they were seen in the country’s first democratic by Nelson Mandela over the last 67 years. Each elections in 1994. resultant beadwork adds to a larger experience and abstracted narrative of South Africa’s challenges. CAMPANILE FRIEZE 76 YOUTH WINDWARD TREE OF LIFE 2 Mkhonto Gwazela 33 by a workshop collaboration 45 Anthony Coke 57 Work in progress A celebration of the indigenous heritage of the The artwork is a statement about the 76 The shapes of these sculptural benches hint at Nelson Mandela Bay and Eastern Cape area is generation and represents the spiritual journey Port Elizabeth’s nautical history while the title refers sculpted through visual images set into a cast undertaken by those who fought against to the city’s popular name, the “Windy City”. concrete curved beam. oppression. GRAFFITI by Black Concepts WALL OF TEXTS CHAPEL STREET CROSSING RIVER MEMORY CONSTITUTIONAL COURT 3 Mkhonto Gwazela 34 Mthetheleli Williams 46 Duncan Stewart 58 Work in progress A written flow-poem engraved onto locally-sourced A pattern of colourful paving bricks flows from all The artwork evokes the streamlet that once granite accompanies the Campanile Frieze directions over the crossing in Chapel Street. This trickled down to the sea before it was land-filled, and celebrates the indigenous and locally born represent the gathering of masses that voted in the making way for what is now Donkin Street (circa contribution to arts and culture. 1994 elections. 1850s). TALKING WOMEN 1 TOWER SCULPTURE UNTITLED TRINDER 4 Lorinda Pretorius 35 The Workplace Architects 47 Anton Momberg 59 Work in progress This work bears eloquent witness to the ongoing The Tower Sculpture acts as a beacon to The piece has been left untitled with the features painful struggle of rural communities dealing with the announce the journey through the Donkin Reserve and clothing on the female figure deliberately AIDS epidemic. It is a lament for the dead, for the and responds to its surrounding elements to allow neutral, as the work is meant as a conversation injustices of our health system and the staggering wind and light to bring it to life. piece ratherthan a conceptually specific entity. grief experienced in Eastern Cape villages today. ** Please note: Artworks 4,5,6 have been relocated. They will be housed in the newly developed Tramways building once the development is completed. TALKING WOMEN 2 MOSAIC STAIRS WELCOME CARPET TRINDER BENCH 5 Nompumezo Gubevu 36 Jane Du Rand, Nandipha Judy Mnono, 48 Lisbet Demeyer 60 Mary Duker, Luke Lombard, Mawande Mase, Nombuso Erica Jacobs, Pumlani Kwayiyo, Amy Verheul, NMMU alumni, students and Zandile Bianca Snam, Mthetheleli Williams, community artists, Mellaney Ruiters and Jacques Nel. Using colour glass, oxides and powders this Siyolo Nicollas Ketabehle, Bugalekaya Patrick Loli, As its title reflects, the Quartz Carpet and bead female figure was created as a symbol of what Mxolisi Malcolm Madela, Mzwandile Matoto artwork is a welcoming celebration and luxurious women have that unites them ratherthan what experience hinting at the cultural context of the The Trinder benches were conceptualised as a divides them. The stairway is an experiential journey that starts Eastern Cape and leading diverse local cultures creative and crafted response to the roots of the in darkness and turbulence and progresses to a and visitors onto the Donkin Reserve. wild Fig trees that grow in Trinder Square. ** Please note: Artworks 4,5,6 have been relocated. new dawn and explosion of colour, hope and new They are arranged in an oval around the central They will be housed in the newly developed grassed lawn where residents of the area play Tramways building once the development is completed. beginnings. soccer and ball sports in the evenings. TALKING WOMEN 3 34 LIGHTS LIGHTHOUSE MOSAIC MOMENTS ROSE STREET 6 Anver Chaizzari 37 Collaboration 49 Nombuso Jacobs, Sinethemba Joy Mabope, 61 Work in progress Zandile Snam, Nkosoxolo Vegani, Ntombizanele Nojo Ko, Andiswa Manyota, Tuso Mosia, Patrick Loli, Maps from different times in Port Elizabeth’s Produced as a collaboration between students Malcolm Medela, Siyolo Ketababile & Jane Du Rand History illustrate how people have been and school pupils of Nelson Mandela Bay, the 34 instrumental in the changing landscape. This is Lights represent a journey along the Voting Queue The symbolic interpretation of the tiled pieces is contained within the Woman’s body, making her and the Mosaic Stairs, telling a story about past, a celebration of symbols and icons within Port a vehicle for the idea that many generations have present and future. Elizabeth and its surrounds, referencing various lived and died in this area. stories, personal ideas and journeys. ** Please note: Artworks 4,5,6 have been relocated. They will be housed in the newly developed Tramways building once the development is completed. IDENTITIES AMPHITHEATRE WALL GARDEN MAP 7 16 Lubhi Mtathi 38 Leminah Chifadza, Kieth Vilahakis, Paula Paton 50 Patrick Watson 62 Shepherd Xego A series of colourful and evocative portraits that A public art experience, where humour, vibrance Garden design with indigenous plants. A lino cut artwork by Shepherd Xego presents depict young South Africans from a range of and colour meet the gritty nature of everyday street his own perspective and journey of the Route cultural backgrounds are installed on the pillars life through a graphic and illustrative interpretation 67. Drawing on architectural features, activities underneath the Settlers Way flyovers. of Port Elizabeth’s inner city ambience. Mark Joubert and public artworks, Shepherd guides the visitor through his birds-eye imaginary experiences of Planting, save and rescue work. the city. WALK OF WORDS ELECTION QUEUE HARMONY IN NATURE SOUTH END GLASS SCULPTURE 17 by a collective of crafters 39 The Workplace Architects 51 Dominique Guillot in collaboration with Pumlani 63 Lorinda Pretorius Kwayiyo, Mxolisi Malcom Madela, Jane Du Rand & team A collaboration of artists used value words in The Voting Queue represents the voting line that A sculpture created to commemorate the different languages to represent the New South was formed at the 1994 elections. This old optical technique used by the likes people who were forcefully removed from the Africa and it’s prosperity as a democratic nation. of Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, is a old South End by the Group Areas Act under combination of optical illusion and mathematics.