Ever stood, mystified, in front of a public artwork wishing you had even a scrap of information to help you make sense of it?
A new app about to come online in Tauranga will help to explain and demystify 20 artworks placed around the city centre. The City Art Walk is part of Tauranga's Escape Festival later this month.
Sonya Korohina and her team have been working on researching and illustrating the free app so people can hear the full story behind the street art, the stained glass windows and the city's Hairy McLarey statues of famous local Lynley Dodd's beloved stories.
Sonya's company Supercut Projects is behind the project that will be launched as part of the city's Escape! Festival.
As she tells Lynn Freeman, without context it's too easy for public artworks to be misunderstood and often overlooked.
Tauranga's City Art Walk app is available to download from the 17th of October. As part of the city's Escape! festival there will also be some real life guided tours.
