Reinstatement - Celebrating Pride 2026
Pride is a core pillar at Precinct, something we actively celebrate with our clients, partners and communities across our portfolio and through The Club.
To celebrate Pride Month 2026, Precinct has partnered with artist Shannon Novak to create a series of artworks installed across our buildings. Titled Reinstatement, the series marks 40 years since the Homosexual Law Reform Act came into effect in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Passed in 1986 after decades of activism and public debate, the Act decriminalised consensual sexual activity between men aged 16 and over. While it did not remove all forms of discrimination, it represented a critical shift in New Zealand’s legal and social landscape and laid the groundwork for the progress that followed.
The series of ten artworks, installed across multiple locations in Precinct’s porfolio, explores the significance of the Act through colour, light and form — activating public space as a site for reflection, connection and celebration, experienced alongside the everyday rhythms of work, meeting and gathering.
The title of each artwork was developed by Novak in consultation with local LGBTQI+ communities. Read together, the titles form a poem that honours the lives and labour of LGBTQI+ people before, during and after 1986.
In March 2026, the project will extend to Wellington / Te Whanganui-a-Tara, with the artworks presented in alignment with the Wellington Pride Festival.
The project reflects Precinct’s ongoing commitment to listening to, engaging with and supporting LGBTQI+ communities, and to creating places where Pride is visible, collective and lived.
In March 2026, the project will extend to Wellington / Te Whanganui-a-Tara, with the artworks presented in alignment with the Wellington Pride Festival.
Artwork Titles and Locations
Commercial Bay Airbridge: What survived did so without permission
Precinct Flex Britomart Place: care carried quietly from hand to hand
Jarden House: rooms were made where none were offered
Precinct Properties HQ: pressure gathered, patient and exact
PwC Tower: until the law moved, and kept moving
HSBC Tower: forty years settling into the present
Aon Centre: not as an ending, but as breathing space
12 Madden Street: held open by those who remain alert
Beca House: each gain watched, defended, extended
Pipiri Lane: the work continuing, brighter for being shared
