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The choice of words also makes reference to the children's hand game.", "image": "artwork/KayRosen_lchan.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/KayRosen_lchan-watermarked_vvPiXsM.jpg", "cropping": "212,18,5020,2988", "cropped_image": "artwork/KayRosen_lchan.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-212,18,5020,2988_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": "", "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6320581 -43.53060364)", "validated": true, "street": "", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "here-are-the-people-and-there-is-the-steeple", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": "", "submitter_email": "", "video_url": null, "artists": [397], "crews": [66], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1180, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": null, "commission_date": "March 2025", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Ysek's mural for the Flare \u014ctautahi Street Art Festival includes a collaboration with fellow FSA cfrewmate Seven Eleven. Facing the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, the work features Ysek's signature clean character work and is inspired by the stylistic animation of Studio Ghibli. Ysek's warrior cat, wielding a spraycan, rides a large koi fish across a blue sky, with cherry blossoms blooming behind a large red sun. On the wall around the corner, like a following comic book panel, a samurai primate, in battle gear, stands between two monochromatic architectural graffiti pillars by Seven Eleven. The effect is an open-ended narrative, as if we are reading a story with unclear instructions - are the two figures enemies or even connected? Where is the cat heading, what is monkey guarding - we become the authors as we can fill in the mystery...", "image": "artwork/IMG20250413114032.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20250413114032-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "177,0,1576,866", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": null, "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6321551939887 -43.53052518551993)", "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": [545, 584], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 883, "fields": {"category": 26, "title": "Te T\u0101h\u016b o ng\u0101 Maunga T\u016bmatakahuki", "commission_date": "2020", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "This massive mural, produced as part of the Christchurch Art Gallery's Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania exhibition, draws on the inter-connectedness of traditional tukutuku panelling to suggest exploration, referencing stars, skies, islands, mountains and more to draw on ancestral pathways and navigation.", "image": "artwork/IMG_20200718_103953.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG_20200718_103953-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,239,3648,2497", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6317534562848 -43.5305863251713)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "te-tahu-o-nga-maunga-tumatakahuki", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [537], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 794, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": null, "commission_date": "Early 2019", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "A depiction of the Jewish synagogue that once stood on the inner city site. Root was commissioned to produce a large image, transferring his stencil technique into a new terrain. The simplified form and reduced palette give the image a clean quality that is distinct from Root's more gestural work. Text along the bottom of the image reads: 'This Jewish Synagogue occupied the site 1881 - 1987'. Located at the rear of a carpark, the work is a surprising reminder of the scope of change found in our urban environments.", "image": "artwork/IMG_20191011_122858.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG_20191011_122858-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,863,2736,2556", "cropped_image": "artwork/IMG_20191011_122858.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-0,863,2736,2556_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Jacob Root", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6325923014948 -43.53024409272378)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "794", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [451], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 844, "fields": {"category": 30, "title": null, "commission_date": null, "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "One of the FOLT skulls that have appeared around the city. In this version, FOLT collaborated with Bols, with the skull covered in the abstract stencil sketch style of the latter.", "image": "artwork/IMG_20200313_120632.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG_20200313_120632-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 (172.6309124221474 -43.52976715070829)", "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": 1116, "fields": {"category": 39, "title": "The Little Street Art Festival", "commission_date": "November 2023", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "This tiny spray can, embedded in the ground of Worcester Boulevard, is an acknowledgement of the first ever Little Street Art Festival - like a visible time capsule buried in the ground... Find it - but be warned, you will have to look closely!", "image": "artwork/IMG20231124152215.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20231124152215-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,1481,1834,2615", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": null, "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6303796158352 -43.53103628451206)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "the-little-street-art-festival", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [555], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 490, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "", "commission_date": "May 2017", "status": 1, "decommission_date": "", "description": "In celebration of their new offices in the city centre, Meridian commissioned this mural by Wayne Youle. The five objects featured here- the tekoteko, lightbulb, tree, shovel, and the waka represent Meridian and its values.", "image": "artwork/1612", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/1612-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "309,51,836,577", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": "", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": "http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/86283870/Art-advocate-Christchurch-businesses-should-embrace-public-art-movement", "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.633152 -43.52950517)", "validated": true, "street": "Meridian", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "490", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": "", "submitter_email": "", "video_url": null, "artists": [417], "crews": [66], "likes": [21], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1074, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Poppies", "commission_date": "2022", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "A clutch of giant, detailed poppies sprout up the side of the inner city RSA building, evoking the organisation's symbol. The bright red petals and dark green stems shine against the dark grey backing wall, highlighting the exquisite detail rendered by one of Aotearoa's most talented mural artists.\r\nRed poppies are an international symbol of war remembrance, and are popularly worn in New Zealand the day before and on Anzac Day. They are also displayed at major commemorative events, military funerals, war graves and cemeteries in New Zealand and around the world. Poppies grew on the battlefields of France and Belgium in the Great War, where many New Zealand soldiers lost their lives, as such the red flower is a symbol of remembrance for those who fought and sacrificed.", "image": "artwork/IMG20230707164033.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20230707164033-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "560,0,3516,1834", "cropped_image": "artwork/IMG20230707164033.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 (172.6324862842969 -43.52903091998368)", "validated": true, "street": null, "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "poppies", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [567], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 1068, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": null, "commission_date": "January 2023", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "Combining the traditions of bold graffiti with Ling's signature painterly style, this solo production acknowledges Aotearoa with its central depiction of an iconic tui bird. The bright gold and pink elements of the letterforms provide a bolt of energy, bursting from pieces of brickwork, while the majestic tui adds a sense of calm and poise. \r\nPainted on an exposed wall along Worcester Boulevard, this painting was produced while Ling was visiting New Zealand in early 2023. During the visit, Ling was also a featured artist in SHIFT: Urban Art Takeover at Canterbury Museum, the landmark exhibition that bid farewell to the iconic institution before major redevelopment. Ling was one of a number of international artists included in the massive line-up, painting Nexxi, a portrait of his niece in the Level Four storeroom.", "image": "artwork/IMG20230213124746.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG20230213124746-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "566,0,3530,1834", "cropped_image": "", "photo_credit": null, "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6298274686418 -43.53064768157372)", "validated": true, "street": "Worcester Boulevard", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "none", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": null, "submitter_email": null, "video_url": null, "artists": [569], "crews": [], "likes": [], "checkins": []}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 616, "fields": {"category": 21, "title": "Cycle", "commission_date": "December 2017", "status": 1, "decommission_date": "", "description": "Stage One of the Cycle wall in Christchurch. This wall was planned for Wellington, though Christchurch, New Zealand owns all of New Zealand's cycling stat's so had to paint it there.\r\n\r\nAlso the Portland Naked Bike Ride Wall got removed in 2017, so a slight reference to it has been included, importing lots of the Oregon Influenced bikes, and kept all the riders naked, cause one day New Zealand might support the #WorldNakedBikeRide.\r\n-DSide\r\n\r\nThe Penguins mural by BMD (DSide and Andrew J Steele) which was originally on this wall, was buffed over by the property owners prior to this mural going up. The artists did not paint over their previous mural.", "image": "artwork/Cycle-_Christchurch_2017_DSIDE.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/Cycle-_Christchurch_2017_DSIDE-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "1979,506,3221,1277", "cropped_image": "artwork/Cycle-_Christchurch_2017_DSIDE.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-1979,506,3221,1277_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Dside", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": "", "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.6340901999999 -43.5315378)", "validated": true, "street": "", "admin_notes": "", "map_enabled": true, "smart_cities": true, "slug": "cycle", "submitter_description": "", "submitter_name": "", "submitter_email": "", "video_url": null, "artists": [402], "crews": [], "likes": [71, 15, 123], "checkins": [58]}}, {"model": "streetart.artwork", "pk": 811, "fields": {"category": 30, "title": "All Of This Is For You", "commission_date": "November 2019", "status": 1, "decommission_date": null, "description": "A small paste-up created as part of the launch of Wellington-based illustrator Ruby Jones' book All of This Is For You. The series of paste ups around the city, based on illustrations from the book were intended to draw on the books' sentiments of self-care and care for others, through the creation of small moments of reflection amidst the action of the city. Here, near the Arts Centre's Market Square, depicts a group of people warmly huddled together atop a cloud, accompanied by the admission 'We are so lucky to be here', a reminder to cherish the lives we have.", "image": "artwork/IMG_20191117_101816.jpg", "watermarked_image": "API_artwork/IMG_20191117_101816-watermarked.jpg", "cropping": "0,243,3648,2501", "cropped_image": "artwork/IMG_20191117_101816.jpg.10000x10000_q85_box-0,243,3648,2501_crop_detail.jpg", "photo_credit": "Reuben Woods", "photo_credit_email": null, "city": "Christchurch", "link": null, "location": "SRID=4326;POINT (172.629704193233 -43.53116508215408)", "validated": true, "street": "Worcester Boulevard", "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": []}}]