December 2005
Mural Masterpiece Winners Announced
Each year, Resene is approached by a wide variety of groups creating murals around New Zealand. With most of this dedicated effort receiving only local community attention, this year Resene have decided to recognise and celebrate this creativity with a Mural Masterpieces Competition so that we can all enjoy the works that are created, no matter where they are in New Zealand.
Hundreds have splashed out and created mural masterpieces beautifying towns, schools and neighbourhoods all over New Zealand. With themes ranging from underwater scenes to the depictions of planets, selecting the winners was a difficult task.
The Resene Mural Masterpieces winners, sharing between them over $5000 of prizes, are:
Best School Mural:
1st Place: Naenae Primary School, Wellington.
2nd Place: Te Wharau School, Gisborne.
3rd Place: Woodlands School, Opotiki.
Highly
Commended: Taupaki Primary School, Taupaki.
Auckland
Seventh Day Adventist High School, AK.
Muritai School,
Wellington.
Best Community Mural:
1st Place: Stafford House, Wellington.
2nd Place: Rodney District Council.
Best Professional Mural:
1st Place: Mark and Jocelyn Larsen.
2nd Place: Sue Stimpson for the Marotiri School mural.
3rd Place: Joanne Webber.
Best Mural Design - Mural Designed But Not Yet
Painted:
1st Place: Jane Crisp, Tuakau.
A selection of entries including the winners will be available on the Resene website from January 2006 – www.resene.co.nz/murals/gallery.htm. Check them out online or visit them in person and enjoy the masterpieces created by hundreds of hands.
Details of Winning
Murals:
Best School Mural:
1st – Naenae Primary School.
Location:
Naenae Primary School, Wheatley
Street, Lower Hutt, Wellington.
Team:
Ana Tukula, Eru
Aupouri, Garvey Heraud, Manaakitia Tapara, Owen Vailalo,
Peti Asiata, Richard Edmonds, Rose Kaa and Tufi
Tufi.
Accessible to Public:
Yes.
Mural Theme:
New
Zealand environment.
Background to Mural Creation:
A
building covered in graffiti has now been fully decked out
in a bright and colourful mural featuring the natural
environment and iconic New Zealand symbols such as buzzy bee
and the kiwi. The mural has worked to stop the area being a
target for graffiti and is a source of pride for the
school.
2nd – Te Wharau School, Gisborne.
Location:
Te Wharau School, Graham Road,
Gisborne.
Team:
Year 6 students.
Accessible to
Public:
Yes – situated front of school.
Mural
Theme:
Faces.
Background to Mural Creation:
The Te
Wharau School mural is based on the work of Pablo Picasso.
The painting ‘Girl in a mirror’ was used as the motivation
for the designs the children created. Year 6 art extension
students were selected for the project, which consisted of
painting the back boards, followed by the head shapes.
Everything was then screwed into place on the backboard in a
sequence determined by the children.
3rd – Woodlands
School, Opotiki
Location:
Woodlands School, 168 Dip
Road, Woodlands.
Team:
Vennesa White, Neil Munro, Kay
Stewart, Michelle Wilson, Miriam Bates, Crystal Candy, Evie
Gill, Aorangi Kora, Sophie Lewis, Toela McCormack, Gaylene
Moses, Celeste White, Sarah Wilson, Caitlin Wright, Davis
Aramoana, Piripi Withers, Michael Eagleton, Bronson Freeman,
Jakob Fell, Jared Gullet, Philip Hermann, Alec Mackenzie,
Mark Martin, Brendon Monk, Vincent Newton-Skaley, James Ross
and Hoare Stewart-Shaw.
Accessible to
Public:
Yes.
Mural Theme:
Woodlands.
Background to
Mural Creation:
As part of their Enviroschool programme,
Woodlands School students created a mural featuring all
things indigenous to the area and New Zealand. The mural
was created over a full term with an emphasis on teaching
the students the finer points of perspective drawings,
shadowing and shading.
Highly Commended - Taupaki
Primary School, Taupaki.
Location:
Taupaki Primary
School, 14 Cottle Road, Taupaki.
Team:
Malaika Shaw,
Ashlea Chapman, Karishma Beach, Vivienne Jung, Jacob Green,
Cameron Tulett and Ali Shaw (parent).
Accessible to
Public:
Yes.
Mural Theme:
NZ flora and
fauna.
Background to Mural Creation:
Extending the art
skills of Year 7-8 students doesn’t come much better than
giving them the opportunity to create a mural. The work
incorporating NZ flora and fauna is creative and appealing,
a bright spot to visit within the school
environment.
Highly Commended – Auckland Seventh Day
Adventist High School, Auckland.
Location:
Auckland
Seventh Day Adventist High School, Auckland.
Team:
Matt
Simms (art teacher) and Year 13 art class – Abigail Beguely,
Kalolaine Lokotui, Saufoi Lokotui, Teinaki Marsters, Aroha
Peni, Teawa Rike-Heke, Joshua Sauni, Zecharia Strickland,
Fainga’A Taufa, Aimee Thomson-Out, Joshua Timori, Jasmin
Tito, Sosaia Tifangaloka, Mele Uhamaka and Zion
Vaega.
Accessible to Public:
Yes, school quadrangle
South facing walls.
Mural Theme:
Uniting the cultures,
peoples and faiths of the school.
Background to Mural
Creation:
The Year 13 art class worked together to create
a mural to beautify the school, leave a legacy, make an
artistic statement about the culture and special character
of the school, celebrate the school houses, learn about the
mural making process and develop confidence creating large
scale artworks.
Highly Commended – Muritai School,
Wellington.
Location:
Muritai School, Muritai Road,
Eastbourne, Wellington.
Team:
Molly Littlejohn, Mua-ava
Malama, Daniel Reid, Harriet Salisbury, Finn Cardno, Thomas
Daglish, James Baldock, Lucas Chisolm, Flinn-Graham Wiggins,
James de Ree, Amy Fortescue-Willis, Suraya Hollands, Mark
Meo, Theo Scott, Zoe Moncheur, Margot Sorenson, Ijah Holden,
Mia Utsumi-Potaka, Tiana McGuire, Anna Campbell, Morgan
Collins, Tim Henderson, Anthony Hall, William Cornford,
Rhiannon Bertaud-Gandar, Sian Davis, Thomas Bayler and
Thomas Wollerman.
Accessible to Public:
Yes.
Mural
Theme:
Eastbourne community and
environment.
Background to Mural Creation:
As part of
an Arts Week doing education outside the classroom, the
students worked with a local artist to develop and paint
themes about their community and environment resulting in
this bright and bold mural that represents
Eastbourne.
Best Community Mural:
1st – Stafford House, Wellington.
Location:
Stafford House,
Wellington.
Team:
Gina Manning, Kerry O’Connor, Matt
McGrath, Chandra Paetsch, Winona Chan and Matt
Cornwall.
Accessible to Public:
No.
Mural
Theme:
NZ native bush and coastline.
Background to
Mural Creation:
The sports room was looking a little dull
until this mural team banded together to create a NZ native
bush and coastline scene to liven up the space and make it
more inviting for residents. Not only do the current
residents enjoy the change in scenery but the students have
left a lasting legacy for many more students to
enjoy.
2nd – Rodney District
Council.
Location:
Shelley Beach Store, Shelley Beach,
South Head.
Team:
Helen Beach (artist), Sarah Dugdale
(RDC Arts Advisor) and Deon Thuynsma (Community Facilities
Manager).
Accessible to Public:
Yes.
Mural
Theme:
Celebrating the local and natural
environment.
Background to Mural Creation:
The once
plain large wall is now a source of price for locals and
visitors to enjoy. The wall has been redecorated featuring
the local and natural environment, deterring graffiti and
vandalism and providing a landmark for Shelley
Beach.
Best Professional Mural:
1st – Mark and Jocelyn Larsen.
Location:
Boat Shed Building, Charles
Street, Kaiapoi.
Team:
Bruce Reid and Mark
Larsen.
Accessible to Public:
Yes.
Mural
Theme:
Land before occupation.
Background to Mural
Creation:
The local council approached Larsen’s Art n
Sign Studio to create a mural on a large boat shed wall
depicting Kaiapoi before occupation. The finished mural is
highly detailed, impressive both in its scale and its
artistry.
2nd – Rebecca Simmonds for the Marotiri
School mural.
Location:
Marotiri School, Marotiri Road,
RD, Mangakino.
Team:
Rebecca Simmonds (artist) assisted
by all Marotiri School students, involved in brainstorming
through to painting.
Accessible to Public:
Yes.
Mural
Theme:
Our school.
Background to Mural
Creation:
Keen to create a mural that reflected the
uniqueness of Marotiri School, all students were involved in
the project from gathering ideas, culling them down and then
finally getting them onto the wall with assistance from
artist Rebecca Simmonds. The mural incorporates the heart
of the school, the children, and the natural environment.
With all children having a hand in the making, all can be
proud of the colourful mark they have left on the
school.
3rd – Joanne Webber.
Location:
Mainstreet
Café, Colombo Street, Christchurch.
Team:
Joanne
Webber.
Accessible to Public:
Yes.
Mural
Theme:
NZ theme.
Background to Mural
Creation:
Mainstreet Café home is now home to a NZ themed
type wall for diners and travellers to look at giving them a
peaceful and calm
ambience.
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