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The rich tones and diagonal lines that play off the typography whirl around the elegant female figure at the centre of the mural.", "image": "artwork/IMG20210929114223.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20210929114223-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,269,4096,2803", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6387658715248 -43.52897622215365)", "validated": true, "street": "New Regent Street", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "welcome-to-new-regent-street", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [363], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1159, "fields": {"category": 42, "title": null, "commission_date": "September 2024", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "A three-dimensional knitted version of teethlikescrewdrivers' iconic pencil installed as part of the 2024 Yarnachy festival. Created by Oxford-based fibre artist Salvo Elias-Drago for Gap Filler's annual yarn-bombing festival, the tactile textile works are inspired by teethlikescrewdrivers' flat two-dimensional versions that have recurred through \u014ctautahi for several years, from small stickers to larger paintings and paste-ups. The re-imagining gives new life to the icon, especially within the urban environment, where the softer effect and sense of time that is imbued within craft are a contrast to the hard, fast-moving setting.", "image": "artwork/IMG20240905154535_Cropped_.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20240905154535_Cropped_-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "277,0,2728,1517", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": null, "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6386966904366 -43.52876734083424)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "none", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1248, "fields": {"category": 39, "title": "Folau (Vaka)", "commission_date": "December 2025", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Drawing on his Tongan heritage, Monti compiles a selection of icons that speak of navigation (\u2018Folau\u2019 translates linguistically to \u2018a voyage by sea\u2019 in Tongan) \u2014 tuna, rays, birds, vaka and more \u2014 each beautifully carved and presented across the cityscape, drawing the audience\u2019s gaze upwards, not only to the sky which is used for way finding, but also to a juxtaposition of the city\u2019s colonial and post-quake physical profile with signs of the wider Pacific. Interspersed across sites where the artist\u2019s work can be found in larger murals and public works, these additions are subtle and yet meaningful, encouraging exploration, navigation and reflection.", "image": "artwork/_XS09020.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/_XS09020-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,633,2000,1871", "cropped_image": "artwork/_XS09020.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-0,633,2000,1871_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Sofiya R", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": null, "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.63871556167 -43.52876676339912)", "validated": true, "street": "Corner of Armagh and New Regent St", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "folau-vaka", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [579], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 381, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Ballerina", "commission_date": "Rise Festival 2014", "status": 2, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Arguably Christchurch's most iconic mural, The Ballerina, will forever be partially blocked by the new performing arts building which stands in front of it. You can still see views of the Ballerina by grabbing a coffee and seat on the second floor of two of the cafes on New Regent Street. \r\n\r\nWatch this video, which was filmed just around the corner from this mural. https://vimeo.com/164509608/", "image": "artwork/121.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/121-watermarked_APR0MpA.jpg", "cropping": "0,104,3888,2510", "cropped_image": "artwork/121.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-0,104,3888,2510_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Damian Holt", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6381378 -43.52922929)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "ballerina", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [361], "crews": [66], "likes": [20, 29, 33, 43, 71, 73, 112], "checkins": [71, 79, 97, 112]}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1109, "fields": {"category": 30, "title": "Clone", "commission_date": null, "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "One of the artist's repeated Clone heads - a blankly expressioned plaster cast that appears throughout the city, strangely beguiling and yet vacant...", "image": "artwork/IMG20240114184747.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20240114184747-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,1481,1834,2615", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6389924284194 -43.52885808773851)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "clone", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [573], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 996, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "The Marriage of Figaro", "commission_date": "May 2021", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Produced in support of the NZ Opera's 2021 production of famed opera The Marriage of Figaro, Jessie Rawcliffe's alluring mural uses the production's existing promotional imagery but adds a distinctive stylistic twist. Working with NZ Opera, Watch This Space, The Piano, Wilson Parking and the Christchurch City Council, the mural is the result of cross-pollination.\r\nDepicting two of the opera's central characters, the grey-scale image is brought to life with flashes of red (the character Susanna's lips and a word scrawled on her arm), the humming, smoky effect of Rawcliffe's dry brush technique adds to the work's beauty. Also harnessing the urban environment, the worn graffiti on the concrete wall becomes part of the image, rendering the work both sophisticated and contemporary.\r\nThe process was documented by Belmont Production's Rick Harvie.", "image": "artwork/IMG_20210527_144955.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG_20210527_144955-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,302,4608,3154", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": null, "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6379316786542 -43.52927545116371)", "validated": true, "street": "Gloucester Street", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "the-marriage-of-figaro", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nd2i22EODs", "artists": [551], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1097, "fields": {"category": 39, "title": "Gazer", "commission_date": "November 2023", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "\u014ctautahi painter and designer Jessie Rawcliffe is a perfect example of the type of artist whose work is a perfect translation for the Little Street Art Festival \u2013 the painterly strokes and sense of engagement evident in her figurative works are perfect for capturing a public audience in frozen moments that can never quite be replicated in larger-scale formats. Rawcliffe\u2019s suite of site-specific paintings, with colour palettes inspired by the urban environment in which they are placed catch the audience in unexpected moments. Locking eyes with the tightly cropped figures, the paintings extend the artist\u2019s interest in challenging the dynamic of the gaze, something that becomes even more powerful in the public realm. Created in pairs, the works position the audience in the middle of two glances, unsure if they have become the subject or are awkwardly caught in between a conversation.\r\nThe Gazer series was produced as part of the inaugural Little Street Art Festival - a celebration of smaller scale street art and the diverse potential of urban creativity...", "image": "artwork/202311_Little_Street_Art_Festival-0966.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/202311_Little_Street_Art_Festival-0966-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,48,2000,1285", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": "Centuri Chan", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": "https://www.littlestreetartfestival.co.nz/jessie-rawcliffe", "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6386190908117 -43.52967514799901)", "validated": true, "street": "New Regent Street", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "gazer", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [551], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1096, "fields": {"category": 39, "title": "Gazer", "commission_date": "November 2023", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "\u014ctautahi painter and designer Jessie Rawcliffe is a perfect example of the type of artist whose work is a perfect translation for the Little Street Art Festival \u2013 the painterly strokes and sense of engagement evident in her figurative works are perfect for capturing a public audience in frozen moments that can never quite be replicated in larger-scale formats. 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The figures emerge from a black background, with slashes of blue rippling across the composition, a striking combination with the flesh tones and white highlights. The work makes incredible use of the difficult wall surface - grout lines, pillars, drain pipes and other fixtures providing details that disappear with the mural's clever transformation.\r\nFramed by a newly renovated carpark space, the mural is a meaningful addition to a formerly dilapidated space, evidence that art in the streets can operate in multiple performances.", "image": "artwork/IMG_8124.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG_8124-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,48,2048,1315", "cropped_image": "artwork/IMG_8124.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-0,48,2048,1315_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Ling", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.639487786552 -43.52911171093024)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "elias-may-and-kairau", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [516], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 456, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Sea Monsters", "commission_date": "Spectrum Festival 2015/16", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Inspired by Maori and Pacific oceanic mythology and narratives, Berst's Sea Monsters was produced for the 2015 Spectrum Festival. The three recesses on the side of the iconic Isaac Theatre Royal allow the Auckland artist to construct a triptych of images, both unified and distinct. The bold colours, highlights and use of black to define forms highlight Berst's graffiti background.\r\n\r\nThis is one of eleven work illuminated by sustainable solar lighting for the Street Art Lighting Project supported by Gen Green, Living Space Group, the Christchurch City Council and Watch This Space.\r\n\r\nThis work was the inspiration for this piece of writing submitted as part of the Paint 'n' Pen project in 2019: https://thecommutingbook.org/stories/the-sea-serpent/", "image": "artwork/Berst_Monster_lchan.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/Berst_Monster_lchan-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "1074,549,1895,1057", "cropped_image": "artwork/Berst_Monster_lchan.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-1074,549,1895,1057_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6378405 -43.52941183)", "validated": true, "street": "near Dance-o-Mat", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "sea-monsters", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [379], "crews": [73, 65], "likes": [71], "checkins": [58, 71, 97]}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1191, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Dawn Raids - Knowledge is Power", "commission_date": "2024", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Kophie Su'a-Hulsbosch's Dawn Raids mural, completed with funding from Creative NZ, illuminates the impact of the Dawn Raids in \u014ctautahi Christchurch, while also celebrating the vibrant impact of Aotearoa's Pasifika communities. \r\nPainted in 2024, the work acknowledges the petition delivered to the NZ Government to apologise for the Dawn Raids and to ensure they are included in Aotearoa history curriculum education.\r\nThe work declares Knowledge is Power in two bands in the middle of the work, with each side depicting a different narrative. The left features the portrait of Alf, who experienced the Raids as a young man. He is surrounded by references - images of protest, newspaper stories and the image of a house where many arriving Pasifika families stayed. Alf's hairstyle represents a style popular among young Polynesian men at the time of the Raids, leading to profiling. \r\nOn the right side of the mural, Emma represents Aotearoa's thriving Pasifika population and the need to look to the future by acknowledging the past.\r\nThe work's bright colours and iconography illuminate the message and celebrate Pasifika culture - a reminder of muralism's ability to raise important discourses to the wider public.", "image": "artwork/IMG20241119093420.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20241119093420-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "148,0,1295,711", "cropped_image": "artwork/IMG20241119093420.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-148,0,1295,711_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": null, "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6394982518332 -43.5289110500058)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "dawn-raids-knowledge-is-power", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [473], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1132, "fields": {"category": 30, "title": "Wizards - Leave No Trace Trail", "commission_date": "2024", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "As part of the Leave No Trace trail, this work is both a tender recollection of a past icon of \u014ctautahi Christchurch and a playful reminder that the city is a place for play.\r\nPart of the artist's wider Ghosts on Every Corner project, the work is a recreation of a coin token from beloved video game parlour Wizards, formerly located on Gloucester Street where the token is fixed. The token is a small-scale piece of public art, but is actually larger than a real token. The tokens were used to play the many games inside the dark Wizards building - although stories remain of creating static electricity by rubbing your soles on the carpet, bypassing the need for tokens. Wizards was representative of an era where technology brought people to real places, a playground for young people.\r\nWizards may now be gone, but in Ghostcat's small gesture, the memory lives on...", "image": "artwork/IMG20240605161429.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20240605161429-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,144,755,611", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.637791329982 -43.52976625604726)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "wizards-leave-no-trace-trail", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [555], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 452, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Hide and Seek", "commission_date": "June 2016", "status": 1, "decommission_date": "", "description": "", "image": "artwork/wongi_unimed_vSDUVWD.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/wongi_unimed_vSDUVWD-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "496,919,2302,2723", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": "", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": "", "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6395353 -43.52973453)", "validated": true, "street": "", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "hide-and-seek", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": "", "submitter_email": "", "video_url": null, "artists": [363], "crews": [67], "likes": [17], "checkins": [39, 58, 79, 97]}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 845, "fields": {"category": 30, "title": null, "commission_date": null, "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Another of FOLT's skull cutouts found across the city. This version is another of FOLT's collaborations with Bols, with the latter's abstract stencil sketches filling the ply wood form.", "image": "artwork/IMG_20200313_155254.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG_20200313_155254-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,977,2736,2671", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": "Reuben Woods", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6375844195617 -43.52976055710033)", "validated": true, "street": "Gloucester Street", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "none", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [524, 528], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1170, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Unfinished Infancy", "commission_date": "2024", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Painted in collaboration with Chile One, this work of a smiling infant's face is a refresh of the Manchester Street wall that has held a number of murals and graffiti artworks over it's recent history. Completed over an extended period, the mural's title is a reference to the work never really being complete. The cropped composition providing an immediacy of impact as we can't help but giggle along with the cherubic subject. \r\nThis work was supported by the Watch This Space x Flare Street Art collaboration along with the Christchurch City Council.", "image": "artwork/IMG20240909160633.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20240909160633-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "566,0,3530,1834", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6393474722895 -43.53001154788822)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "unfinished-infancy", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [385], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 663, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Climate Change? 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Interspersed across sites where the artist\u2019s work can be found in larger murals and public works, these additions are subtle and yet meaningful, encouraging exploration, navigation and reflection.", "image": "artwork/_XS09022.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/_XS09022-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,633,2000,1871", "cropped_image": "artwork/_XS09022.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-0,633,2000,1871_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Sofiya R", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": null, "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6376940039772 -43.53057201331224)", "validated": true, "street": "Catherdral Sq Parking Lot", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "folau-whale", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [579], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 531, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": null, "commission_date": "Rise Festival 2014", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Rone's beautiful depiction of Australian model Teresa Oman is a highlight from the 2013 Rise Festival. 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