Public Art Policy

Vision

The City of Surrey’s Public Art Program creatively enhances public spaces through art installations that reflect Surrey’s heritage and diverse cultures.

The vision of Surrey’s Public Art Master Plan is to:

• Create a lively, beautiful, inclusive, sustainable, and complete community by integrating public artworks into the public realm (architecture, infrastructure, and landscape).
• Reflect community identity, values, cultural diversity, and Indigenous heritage through placemaking and showcasing a range of traditional, historic, and contemporary art practices.
• Develop and maintain a diverse and valued collection of artworks of varying scales, forms, and styles.
• Benefit from the creativity of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists producing artwork within local, provincial, national, and international contexts.

Public Art Policy and Funding

Investment in the City of Surrey’s public art projects is guided by its Public Art Policy (updated in 2018) with implementation informed by its Public Art Plan (2020-2029).

New public art projects are funded from contributions to the City public art reserve fund generated by the Private Development Public Art Program, as well as contributions from the City’s capital construction projects such as new civic facilities.

The Arts & Culture Committee is the advisory committee for public art.  

Benefits of Public Art

Public art provides numerous economic, social, cultural, health, environmental and aesthetic benefits to residents and promotes the overall well-being of the community.