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WAITANGIRUA MURALS JAN 2013


Its a great way to start the year when you get 12 talented artists hanging out for a week and creating beautiful mural pieces on the big front wall of the Waitangirua Mall.
It got me back into what I loved doing and it was an inspiration to view and experience the different styles and methods of the other artists.

Below are the artists in order of the wall position, Left to right.

Arie Kareti
Ranga Tuhi
Ian Taylor
Metua Rangi
Ruth Robertson Taylor
Semi Feite
Olivia Giles
Antz June
Rudy Whitehead-Lopez
Chloe Rewiti
Nestor Opetaia
Theo Stechman



JAY & SALLY'S FLAG UNION 2012

Friends ,Jay & Sally are getting married very soon and asked if i could paint a New Zealand Fern( representing Sally )on top of an Irish Flag ( representing Jay) below is the finished flag.



REMIX OF A KATY PERRY SONG "WIDE AWAKE" 2012



MICHAEL JACKSONS "OFF THE WALL"HOUSE REMIX 2012

huge fan of this song so i had a play with it ,have a listen!



Leslie,Blue and there poodles completed 2012

 details in portrait page
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"Lazyboy ordeals and ufos" painting

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Music for Exhibition completed
"Lazyboy Ordeals and UFOs"



Group Exhibition starts April
"Hear it,See it"

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Blast from the past 2012



Dec 2011

Portrait of Tracey,Lua and the kids completed.

click on portrait link below for details

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SHORTLAND STREET PAINTING 2011

Painting "Same Cheese" displayed in Dr Maxwell Avea's office in the New Zealand T.V Series "Shortland Street"



Coming soon . . .
1.Portrait of Lesley, her husband Blue, and their 2 pet poodles ....


         
      2.Portrait of Tracey, Lua and the kids ....
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click below for portrait page

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MURAL 2011 and UPGRADE


A space next to the North City Bakery wall was free for a mural as part of the sprucing up campaign of the Mungavin Shops in Porirua Wellington.
The one of many murals also coincides with the New Zealand Rugby World Cup 2011 celebrations..
The "Keep New Zealand Beautiful" Logo was the design allocated to the free wall space
The "Keep Porirua Beautiful "Logo
is the upgrade.

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P O R T R A I T  2 0 1 1


H A P P Y
     B I R T H D A Y   
J E S S !
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28-31 July

THE NZ ART SHOW

TSB Bank Arena,Wellington

Preview 1 of 3

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"Agnes" 2011

 

  May/June 

Pataka Gallery Porirua Wellington

THE BLACK AND WHITE SHOW
Group exhibtition "colour show"

 

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"The Angry sky and the grateful dead" 2011



   March   coming soon

As part of the Auckland festival

"Alter-native Surfaces"

4 contemporary Samoan artists

Aotea Centre, Queen St -  March 6 to 12

okai@Reef Gallery 69 -71 Beach Rd Auckland CBD  -  March 14 to 31
 
Sekio Fuapopo – San Francisco

Nestor Opetaia - Porirua

Sale Pepe – Auckland

Nathan Suniula - Auckland

Alternatives Surfaces Preview 1 0f 3 paintings

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'Suggestive Window'2011

 

 

  Feb/march

"Resilience" Group exhibition
Bowen House Gallery Wellington
Part of the Wellington festival ..on now until march 

"The reason for the title Resilience... Pacific peoples have remarkable resilience in the face of natural disasters like hurricanes. The 2009 tsunami in Samoa and Tonga was the immediate  inspiration for this title. But in fact Pacific peoples have also recovered from the challenging  experience of migration to become a significant community in contemporary NZ in daily life contributing to sports, politics, arts, entertainment and certain professions. Many still face hardship with unemployment, poor health and housing. New leaders with new ideas are emerging and show the resilience of the early  pioneers to make a better life for the future."
caption written by Marilyn Kohlhase

                   

" Painting for "Resilience"

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'Life and Light' 2011



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