FILTH on Armagh Street
Category Archives: Paint
Stand Tall
The painted giraffe sculptures around the city seem to be popular, these two, by Sean ‘Ghstie’ Duffell at the Wainoni Pak n Save and Yikes in New Regent Street are personal favourites, highlighting two artists with distinctive personal styles and visual vocabularies with backgrounds and continuing graffiti/street practices, but whose work also reaches further…
BMD save the penguins
BMD’s massive Ice Fest wall on Worcester Boulevard
Alter Egos
From the Ground Up, Byron Street
Some more from the Byron Street wall…
Incorporating KOST
KOST piece on Byron Street from From the Ground Up last year.
DEOW and IKARUS at UC
Not the best pic of a DEOW and IKARUS container inside Bentley’s at the University of Canterbury…
Gary Silipa, From the Ground Up
Gary Silipa on Bryon Street from last year’s From the Ground Up.
Find Me…
Snapped in the old Rialto car park off Moorhouse Ave, I’m not sure if they have been found, hope they packed a lunch…
DROWS and APEK
Drows and Apek in the central city, the shots aren’t great, it was a tight alleyway…
You can only hope to contain…
The ubiquitous shipping containers around Christchurch have been multi-purpose beasts, from storage to shops, and serving as protective shields they have been the city’s blu-tack in terms of varied use. Their appearance is also suggestive of a network of stationery train carriages parked around the city, devoid of the flashing transience, but still providing a number of surfaces prime for decoration. They have been adorned in a number of ways, often painted or covered as part of commissioned projects to alter their steely facades. But due to their pervasive nature they have also been adopted as canvasses by the uninvited, their surfaces covered in quickly produced names, faces, characters and messages…
Love in Latimer Square
Sweet Beard
Yikes and Leeya on Hereford Street
Free Ikarus!
The new EMBASSY wall painted by Yikes, Freak and Ikarus, finished with the crowds of the First Thursday event watching. Now to free Ikarus’ piece from the oppression of those fences and paving blocks…
POW!
Power on St Asaph Street