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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": 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": 1057, "fields": {"category": 36, "title": "The Haunted Teacup", "commission_date": "April 2022", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Ghostcat's Haunted Teacup, produced as part of the launch of The Little Street Art Festival concept, is a whimsical encounter on one of Christchurch's most iconic streets. Located outside popular whiskey bar The Last Word, The Haunted Teacup offers a horrifying supernatural encounter to the passing public - not for those faint of heart!\r\nThe reality is that the worn Victorian view-box is really a mundane experience, a comment on the conflict of expectation and reality in an era where everything is set up as incredible due to social media's superfluous inflation. In addition, the teacup and Victorian detail recall Otautahi's past, recognition of the greater diversity now found across the city.\r\nAn example of Ghostcat's ability to render fantastic detail from unexpected means, the playful, interactive addition is a unique piece of urban art.\r\nStay tuned for updates about The Little Street Art Festival!", "image": "artwork/IMG20220525112651_2.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20220525112651_2-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,633,1773,1731", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6386220346525 -43.52912591831637)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "the-haunted-teacup", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [555], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1014, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Welcome to New Regent Street", "commission_date": "September 2021", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Local legend Wongi 'Freak' Wilson livened up the wooden hoarding at the northern end of one of Otautahi's most picturesque streets with this stunning Art Deco inspired piece. New Regent Street has long been a beautiful treasure in the city, with its Deco architecture a point of difference from the prevailing Neo Gothic profile for which the city has been celebrated.\r\nWith a Great Gadsby feeling, the work draws on the surrounding architectural aesthetic while also adding to the sense of reverie with the hospitality businesses that draw crowds. 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": 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": 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": 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": 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. 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 small scale street art and the diverse potential of urban creativity...", "image": "artwork/202311_Little_Street_Art_Festival-0974.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/202311_Little_Street_Art_Festival-0974-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,588,1333,1412", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": "Centuri Chan", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": "https://www.littlestreetartfestival.co.nz/jessie-rawcliffe", "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6387745132446 -43.52967680622728)", "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": 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": 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": 663, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Climate Change? Conscious Change!", "commission_date": "March 2018", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Two weeks before the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conference March 2018, Plant Gang got a call to do a mural. After a call out over Instagram, the mural was completed in two days with the help of about 19 people including Claire, Astrid, Darelle, Hamish, Pops, MJ, Toni, Tegan, Isaac, Josie, Viv, Julia, Sarah, Monica, Kelly, Amy, Rachel, and Liv.\r\n\r\nAbout the mural:\r\nSOUTH VIEW OF PLANET EARTH \u2022 RICHARD 'POPS' BAKER\r\nAntarctica features center of this oft unseen view of the world. We choose it for it is a victim of climate change. \r\nOur small country is hovering overtop. Acting as the beacon of light we can only hope to be in the face of this terrifing fact of our existence.\r\nThe mural was designed to host 10 poems written about climate change. These were curated by Samantha Jory-Smart and 9 of them were from the anthology A Climate of Change edited by Dr Sam Illingworth and Dan Simpson.", "image": "artwork/PlantGang_ClimateChange_001_LindsayChan.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/PlantGang_ClimateChange_001_LindsayChan-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "248,0,5084,2988", "cropped_image": "artwork/PlantGang_ClimateChange_001_LindsayChan.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-248,0,5084,2988_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Lindsay Chan", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": "http://www.plantgang.co.nz/#/consciouschange/", "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6372683392868 -43.52879708750812)", "validated": true, "street": "Armagh Street", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "climate-change-conscious-change", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [480], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": [92, 97]}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 613, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Whero O Te Rangi Bailey", "commission_date": "December 2017", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Kevin's last mural of 2017, Whero O Te Rangi Bailey, was one of ten murals brought to Christchurch by YMCA's Street Prints Otatauhi. \r\n\r\nA Maori elder from Parihaka in Taranaki, Whero Bailey was originally photographed by Stu Robertson as part of his Peace in 10,000 Hands project. It's a great story: Stu and Kevin met the first day the muralist arrived in Christchurch to discuss using one of Robertson's photos to reinterpret into a mural on The Crown Plaza Hotel. Ledo recounts: \"Soon after starting the mural, the daughter of the woman I was painting, Maia, reached out to me with the kindest words and appreciation. I then learned more about her mum, and hence am able to share more about her with you! Whero Bailey is no longer with us, but her daughter said she would have been humbled by this dedication to her. She said the image is being shared around the family and around the rohe (territory of iwi tribes). I could not have ended this year with a better experience and story to share with you.\"\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 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.", "image": "artwork/KevinLedo_SPO_AbigailWalsh.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/KevinLedo_SPO_AbigailWalsh-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "472,155,1935,1060", "cropped_image": "artwork/KevinLedo_SPO_AbigailWalsh.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-472,155,1935,1060_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Abigail Walsh", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6369139999999 -43.528957)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "whero-o-te-rangi-bailey", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [454], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": [58, 97]}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1070, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Post Cadmium Aesthetics", "commission_date": "March 2023", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Painted for the Mini Flare festival in March 2023, Dcypher's striking Post Cadmium Aesthetics is a study of nature's ability to both lure and repel through the use of colour. The image, in part generated through AI prompts is surreal, combining graffiti with architecture and nature, but instantly alluring, rendered in exquisite detail. From the buzzing bees and fluttering Monarchs, to the fantastical bird's plumage, the dripping honey and illusion of space created by the seemingly industrial setting, the eye is drawn throughout the image, the golden warmth of the yellow palette, a suggestion of optimism and joy, is countered by the colour's sense of warning and danger, an unsettling combination. \r\nDcypher has long been interested in the integration of technology into his practice, and he admits the rise of AI image generation is both instantly fascinating and discouraging in its efficiency. Here, the artist embraces the potential and the result is a stunning mural work that draws the viewer into a vibrant, if unnerving, world with seemingly limitless potential, a synthesis of technology and human technique.", "image": "artwork/IMG20230327140217.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20230327140217-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "560,0,3516,1834", "cropped_image": "artwork/IMG20230327140217.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-560,0,3516,1834_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6379604972718 -43.53015795288936)", "validated": true, "street": "Press Lane", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "post-cadmium-aesthetics", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [370], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 659, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": null, "commission_date": "April 2018", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "This project is a first for Grace. She's depicting a historical narrative of the area. As she chips away on it, drop by and say hi.\r\n\r\nHelp us collect work in progress shots, by tagging us on instagram, #watchthisspacechch or sending them through our website.", "image": "artwork/GraceWaitaha_Presslane_WIP_004_LindsayChan.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/GraceWaitaha_Presslane_WIP_004_LindsayChan-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "248,0,5084,2988", "cropped_image": "artwork/GraceWaitaha_Presslane_WIP_004_LindsayChan.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-248,0,5084,2988_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6379760347864 -43.53017965977953)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "659", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [478], "crews": [], "likes": [71], "checkins": [58, 62, 97]}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1175, "fields": {"category": 43, "title": "Elias, May and Kairau", "commission_date": "March 2025", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist Ling was one of two international artists for the 2025 Flare \u014ctautahi Street Art Festival, his contribution on the exterior of popular Manchester Street cafe Child Sister a lively addition to the city's collection.\r\nUtilising his expressive, painterly portraiture style, Ling pays tribute to \"good people\" - his friend Elias, a father, musician and artist from \u014ctautahi; May, one of the co-owners of Child Sister; and Kairau, a T\u0101maki Makaurau artist also featured in the Flare festival. 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": 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. 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Through the striking design and execution, Askew's work asks us to consider what it means to be part of a diaspora.\r\n\r\nNow based in the United States, Askew One (Elliot O'Donnell) is a central figure in the story of urban art in Aotearoa, garnering international attention both in the streets and in galleries. 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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": 905, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": null, "commission_date": "September/October 2020", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "This massive mural, the largest in the city, was completed by Dcypher and Jacob Yikes over several weeks. 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The teal blues and icy whites imbue the work with a chilly freshness while small details such as krill and base camps, reward closer inspection.\r\nThe work partners a smaller production at Riverside Market.", "image": "artwork/DJI_0095.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/DJI_0095-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "171,0,3032,1770", "cropped_image": "artwork/DJI_0095.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-171,0,3032,1770_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Bo Duke", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6375883817673 -43.5303685910141)", "validated": true, "street": "Cathedral Square", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "905", "submitter_description": "I watched this evolve over the last few weeks by some extremely talented people. 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Created for the Little Street Art Festival in late 2023, this colourful intervention is part of a larger series of small \u2018fixes\u2019 to cracks and crevices found around Cathedral Square and along Worcester Boulevard. Drawing on each artist\u2019s unique approach and aesthetic, these works suggested new creative directions through collaboration. Although giving the appearance of chaotic spills, the works are carefully created, mixing spray paint, acrylics and washes with marbling and splatter effects, then coated in a durable resin clear coat. In this case, seemingly confused eyes give life to the paint, the piece becoming an observer of the activity going on all around, watching passersby as they hurriedly navigate the city centre. 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The illustration showcases dynamic flowers unfolding from unexpected spots, gracefully swaying as if caught in the wind. Inspired by the urban gardeners of \u014ctautahi and the beauty of nature, Wall of Blooms reflects our ever-changing cityscape and the determination of blooms that thrive amidst concrete cracks, instilling a sense of wonder and appreciation for life's precious moments.\r\n\r\nThe projection invites viewers to pause and observe the flowers' growth, fostering a connection with nature and celebrating the simple yet beautiful aspects of life that surround us every day. A poignant reminder of the resilience and beauty found in unexpected places, Wall of Blooms prompts viewers to cherish the present while encouraging collective efforts to support nature's growth and, by extension, our own ability to flourish. By celebrating nature's ability to thrive amidst adversity, Wall of Blooms inspires viewers to find strength and joy within themselves. \r\n\r\nWall of Blooms is part of the Spotlight - Urban Art Projection series. The work was one of four installations that showcased talented local female artists, supported by the Hine te Hiringa - Empowering Women Through the FIFA Women's World Cup fund and produced by Watch This Space and ChristchurchNZ. The series of projections illuminated the side of the new Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre throughout 2023.\r\n \r\nThe work was a collaboration between Bloom and digital artist Nicholas Keyse.\r\n\r\nLydia Hannah Thomas, a.k.a Bloom n Grow Gal, serves as \u014ctautahi\u2019s urban gardener, 'planting' flowers and spreading tiny blooms of beauty in unexpected spaces across the city. Spanning a variety of mediums, Bloom's work can be found throughout the urban landscape, often small in scale and in unexpected locations. A creator, dreamer, illustrator and event organiser, Bloom occupies a range of spaces across \u014ctautahi's creative communities.\r\n\r\nPushing the limits of graphics technology while incorporating traditional techniques, Nicholas Keyse founded Immersive Reality Ltd after working extensively in the print and digital design industry. Showcasing his work in exhibitions, Keyse held a solo exhibition at the Centre of Contemporary Arts\u2019 Lux Gallery in Christchurch in 2019. 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Painted over the exposed brick of the Quest Hotel, the evocative portrait appears to have been unveiled by the destruction of the Christchurch earthquakes rather than painted in their wake. Drawing on his distinctive style that combines worn surfaces with beautiful visages, Rone's painting has become an icon of the city, suggesting the uncertainty facing the recovering cityscape. Now providing a reassuring presence the work has overseen change, notably in the pairing with the nearby Christchurch Cathedral and Cathedral Square.\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.", "image": "artwork/Rone.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/Rone-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "286,99,592,288", "cropped_image": "artwork/Rone.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-286,99,592,288_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6384528074414 -43.53073891974343)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "531", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [437], "crews": [], "likes": [29, 89, 122], "checkins": [25, 39, 58, 97, 110]}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1146, "fields": {"category": 38, "title": "'api", "commission_date": "July 2024", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "'api is the 7th work created for the Spotlight - Urban Art Projections series.\r\nThe first work created for the third round, 'api is a collaborative piece, a fusion of traditional and contemporary, and a simply stunning visual.\r\n\r\nThe striking \u2018api (\u2018home\u2019 in Tongan) is a collaboration between local artists Monti Masiu and Nicholas Keyse of Immersive Reality.\r\n\r\nThe circular design is drawn from Masiu\u2019s Tongan heritage. The background represents ngatu \u2013 the Tongan name for tapa or decorated bark cloth, overlaid with patterns from traditional tatatau (tattoo). At the centre is a kava bowl, a symbolic ritual deeply embedded in Tongan culture. The design is reflective of the artist\u2019s exploration of his Tongan heritage and identity, allowing him connection to ancestors and tradition through a contemporary lens.       \r\n\r\nKeyse took the geometric patterns Masiu\u2019s work is built on, \u201cmerging the separate layers together as a whole and reflecting the slices around a central point to give the artwork symmetry and a consistent, albeit complicated, composition.\u201d The result is a kaleidoscopic effect that creates new forms, \u201crevealing the mesmerizing complexity of all the infinite combinations and patterns possible, which are seemingly hidden within the original artwork.\u201d Yet, even as the work transforms, the image retains a traditional geometric pattern, suggesting further associations, Keyse explaining that the cyclic motion is \u201csimilar to vortices within whirlpools, evoking the Pacific Ocean.\u201d\r\n_____________________________________________________________________\r\n\r\nMonti Masiu is an \u014ctautahi Christchurch-based artist. While his background in graffiti art continues to inform his work, his exploration of iconography drawn from his Tongan heritage has become a central element of his output, emerging in both traditional and contemporary forms. In 2023, Masiu was featuring in SHIFT: Urban Art Takeover at Canterbury Museum.\r\n\r\nPushing the limits of graphics technology while incorporating traditional techniques, Nicholas Keyse founded Immersive Reality Ltd after working extensively in the print and digital design industry. Showcasing his work in exhibitions, Keyse held a solo exhibition at the Centre of Contemporary Arts\u2019 Lux Gallery in Christchurch in 2019. Co-founder and curator of record label Subtle Recordings, he is also well-known for his prolific production of music posters with which he hopes to continue to inspire future creatives.\r\n\r\n'api comes to life after dark - so optimal viewing times are after 7pm\r\n\r\nSpotlight 3.0 is proudly presented by Watch This Space, with support from the Christchurch City Council's Place Partnership Fund and additional support from Phoenix PDP, ChristchurchNZ and Rau Paenga Ltd.", "image": "artwork/IMG20240702191134.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20240702191134-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "227,0,1417,736", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": null, "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6362078252758 -43.52986689447167)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "api", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [579], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 583, "fields": {"category": 30, "title": "", "commission_date": "2017", "status": 1, "decommission_date": "", "description": "", "image": "artwork/Unknown_SmallRobot_lchan.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/Unknown_SmallRobot_lchan-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,1434,2988,3286", "cropped_image": "artwork/Unknown_SmallRobot_lchan.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-0,1434,2988,3286_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": "", "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6392810442485 -43.5305477091073)", "validated": true, "street": "Manchester between Ash Keating and Pops", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "583", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": "", "submitter_email": "", "video_url": null, "artists": [], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1072, "fields": {"category": 25, "title": "Spotlight Project - Welcome to the City", "commission_date": "June 2023", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Watch This Space and ChristchurchNZ proudly present Spotlight \u2013 Urban Art Projections! Spotlight presents a series of unique art works created by some of \u014ctautahi\u2019s best urban artists in collaboration with talented local animators, illuminating the exterior of Te Pae - Christchurch Convention Centre! \r\nThe diverse productions spotlight local talent while also exploring new possibilities for urban creativity \u2013 adding a surprising twist to Christchurch after dark!\r\n\r\nWelcome to the City - Dcypher\r\nWelcome to the city: Dcypher\u2019s illustration draws on his formative experiences exploring the urban environment through the subcultures of graffiti and skateboarding. Enduring influences on the artist, these subcultures recognise the urban landscape, and its overlooked spaces, as sites for expression, transformation, subversion, and creativity: \u201cThe beauty that these spaces hold as inspirational layers to be interacted with is the key message of this work. I've always loved the look of the raw underbelly of urban architecture, the flip side of the facade, the back alleys, the fire escapes... These spots are constantly in flux as urban subcultures expand in their complexity and reach.\u201d\r\n\r\nDcypher\u2019s adventurous environment has been brought to life by local designer Nicholas Keyse, who utilised the artwork\u2019s layers to craft a captivating illusion. Exploring the scene\u2019s depth by zooming in and scanning across the composition, the viewer is guided through the maze-like terrain: \u201cAs the journey unfolded, I aimed for a thought-provoking narrative to take shape, hinting that this snapshot is merely an echo reverberating across the vast expanse beyond the immediate foreground.\u201d \r\n\r\nCombining impressive technical ability and an undeniable work ethic, \u014ctautahi artist Dcypher is one of Aotearoa\u2019s most respected urban artists. Spanning decades and continents, Dcypher\u2019s practice includes commercial murals, illustration, design and exhibitions, working with global brands and undertaking huge commissions. Dcypher\u2019s crisp, bold and clean style can be found from Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Miami, to Dubai, Brazil and throughout Aotearoa.    \r\n\r\nPushing the limits of graphics technology while incorporating traditional techniques, Nicholas Keyse founded Immersive Reality Ltd after working extensively in the print and digital design industry. Showcasing his work in exhibitions, Keyse held a solo exhibition at the Centre of Contemporary Arts\u2019 Lux Gallery in Christchurch in 2019. 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The collusion of two pop-culture icons essentially becomes an analogue meme, no longer online, now existing in real space.", "image": "artwork/IMG_20191220_141918.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG_20191220_141918-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,977,2736,2671", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": "Mark Catley", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6370385289192 -43.53060000115938)", "validated": true, "street": "Cathedral Square", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "none", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [434], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 803, "fields": {"category": 30, "title": "All Of This Is For You", "commission_date": "November 2019", "status": 2, "decommission_date": null, "description": "This small paste-up was created as part of an urban art-inspired campaign celebrating the release of Jones' book All Of This Is For You in November 2019. Intended not as marketing, but as a way of spreading the messages of self-care and community connection evident in the illustrations, creating small moments of reflection across the city through the lighter footprint of pasted paper. Pasted onto the wooden hoardings surrounding the Christchurch Cathedral, a diverse group of shoulder up portraits are arranged in a cluster, imploring us to 'seek out conversations with people who don't look like you'.", "image": "artwork/DSC08654.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/DSC08654-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,99,4240,2728", "cropped_image": "artwork/DSC08654.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-0,99,4240,2728_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Rachel Eadie", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6366738071115 -43.53052000019697)", "validated": true, "street": "Cathedral Square", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "all-of-this-is-for-you", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [518], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1111, "fields": {"category": 38, "title": "Jen_Head", "commission_date": "October 2023", "status": 2, "decommission_date": null, "description": "The dazzling Jen Heads embodies the profound connection between humanity and the natural world. Created by \u014ctautahi artist Jenna Lynn Ingram, the work is a fresh imagining of Ingram\u2019s titular urban icon, a form of endless possibility. The animation evolves through four stages, as the artist explains: \u201cthe initial two heads symbolize the essence of human nature with the heads pulsing like a heartbeat, seamlessly transitioning into our harmonious integration with the natural world, as depicted in the flora and fauna heads.\u201d The shift from energetic flames of purple to serene green provides a sense of relieving calm, reward for a more attuned relationship with the organic environment. Ingram continues: \u201cthe concluding pair of heads signifies the spiritual dimension of our existence, reflecting our deep-rooted ties to ancient wisdom and ancestral heritage. This artistic representation underscores the fundamental unity that binds us all together.\u201d Jen Heads was animated by local creative agency Offline Collective, unlocking the potential of creative collaboration.\r\n\r\n\u014ctautahi artist Jenna Lynn Ingram, also known as Jen_Heads, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury, where her interest in the urban landscape as a site of influence blossomed. In the wake of the Christchurch Earthquakes, her work shifted to the streets, a transition that led her to form Aotearoa\u2019s leading urban art gallery Fiksate Gallery. Ingram\u2019s work has been exhibited and collected throughout Aotearoa and she has been featured in festivals and exhibitions such as Spectrum (2014) and SHIFT: Urban Art Takeover (2023).  \r\n \r\nOffline Collective is a visual creative agency based in \u014ctautahi, Aotearoa.\r\nOffline is engaged in a range of creative endeavours, constantly exploring new possibilities through the lens of technology. Offline Collective\u2019s work ranges from live touring visuals and art installations, to graphic and motion design, combining diverse creative fields to unlock new ideas. With Offline Collective\u2019s experience and expertise now gaining notice on an international level, there's never been a better time to get Offline.\r\n\r\nThis work was created as part of the Spotlight: Urban Art Projections series - supported by ChristchurchNZ and Watch This Space.", "image": "artwork/IMG20231027204028.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20231027204028-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "566,0,3530,1834", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": "https://blog.watchthisspace.org.nz/2023/11/05/spotlight-jen_heads-sparkles/", "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6358609440871 -43.52972970667454)", "validated": true, "street": "Gloucester Street", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "jen_head", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [525], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}]