Public Art Expanded

When we first set out to photograph all the sculptures around Auckland little did we know how far the journey would take us. We knew the job was big but it just kept growing. We started to find more pou than we expected and having done so had to make a distinction between these carvings and the more traditional European sculptures.

The more we travelled with our eyes open that more 'art' we discovered, wandering up alleyways and into out of the way places we realised just how much 'graffiti' art there is. Of course this street art takes many forms, from a graffiti styled form of tagging through to historical murals painted in places to prevent the 'bad' kind of scrawled tagging. So we expanded our photo collection to include these murals.

We had a further distinction to make. Murals generally cover a large wall space, some are commissioned while others are true graffiti murals but if you walk our streets you are also likely to see some of the painted utility boxes. Again these are mostly designed to deter tagging and bill stickers but in some sections of the city this has been taken to a different level, truly beautifying our city with some truly wonderful art.

In a previous post we provided a link to our sculpture map but coming real soon we will be adding three more maps for Murals, Utility Boxes and Pou.