Isn’t it just the bee’s knees when turning a street corner and receiving an eye full of incredible street art?
For myself, I just love seeing street art and the fact that I can walk around the city I live in and get to view them is well, superb. We were spoilt with fantastic street art in various forms while housesitting in the UK and Europe and even via cities in NZ, like Dunedin.
What is fun and new to me is The Third Street Prints Mauao in Tauranga Moana, showcasing international and local street artists work around our city walls. It is now in its fourth year, and it starts today with a pōwhiri to welcome the artists on top of Mauao at 9am. I will be done and dusted with my mountain climb by that time.
While I spend some time digesting the new sights around the city and surrounding areas let me share a few older pieces.
What happens when your city asks an amazing nationally renowned artist Shane Walker to create a giant four-panel mural?
This happens.
“Devonport Reserve – A Walk into Nature”
Click the below links to check out other street art we have seen.
Life at No. 22 
amazing!
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Yes, there are some amazing artists, arent there.
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Indeed! It makes the world all the more colourful. 🙂
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Fantastic, Sue. Believe it or not, Kawerau is alive with street art, masterpieces by Marc Spijkerbosch from Rotoma and Kawerau’s Bela Ughy. They’re beautiful and surprisingly free of vandalism and graffiti.
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Hi Wendy 🙂 I am impressed that it is free from vandalism and that awful graffiti. The local taggers must respect those artists. A positive thing isn’t it!
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Sure is. There’s hope for the place yet.
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Might need a miracle for that area!
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I enjoy reading and learning more about NZ especially after our visit there last year. This giant mural is amazing. I checked out your post on Dunedin Street Art. Very creative, intricate pieces. I need to see whether our city has any street art. Chemainus is about an hour’s drive from where I live and it is known as a city of murals. A very interesting post, Suzanne!
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Thanks Erica, and I am sure your city will have street art of some kind. It has become a very community orientated way to put a personal mark on what are usually boring concrete walls. As long as the art is professionally done and no graffiti ruins it.
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I think this is why Chemainus is very popular. All professional artwork. I will investigate and possibly share in the future.
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Look forward to reading about it if you get the chance. Have a good night as I need to start my day now 🙂
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I love these Suzanne! Wow they’re amazing, how clever.
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Very clever isn’t he. Some art has the ability to transfix the viewer. These had me doing just that.
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Good street art is a wonderful addition to a town and those panels are excellent, especially the fern poking out of the ‘hole’. They have a very ‘Victorian’ look about them, if that makes sense, as if they are illustrations from explorations long ago.
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I do understand what you mean regarding them having a Victorian look. As I’ve seen sketchings completed from explorers (history books from The Elms) around in this area.
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It’s very impressive. Did you sit on that seat, Suzanne? 🙂
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Thanks and no I didn’t too busy taking photos and motivating myself to finish my walk 🙂
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Street art seems to be popping up everywhere. Love it. Such a creative way of brightening up a town and community.
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They would make you stop in your tracks, although the insect one might make you turn and run away.
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The larger weka is now unfortunately not seen very often. No need to be scared they don’t bite 🙂
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They don’t have to bite to be scary,
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True!
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That is beautiful street art.. I love it.. Portugal has plenty.. 😉
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Yes it does. The tiles and photography were very memorable and I have a huge amount of photos of them 🙂
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I was there 2 years ago and was fortunate enough to see it. I loved Tauranga and everything about your beautiful city. I think it would be a very place to live. Lyn
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Hi Lyn, pleased you enjoyed our city. She is going through some major changes at the moment. More people are appreciating inner city living with more apartments being built. We love living here with our harbour view.
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When it’s good, it’s very very good 🙂 🙂
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Yes it is Jo, especially when it is relatable and not too abstract.
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Wow, the Devonport Reserve murals are beautiful! Well, I might be a bit wary of the third one …
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Love the Shane Walker murals. The glimpse through the hole in the wall, with the fern, is particularly interesting.
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What a lovely surprise 🙂 🙂 Yes, I love his work too. Some of the new art murals are amazing, nearly as good as Dunedin 😉
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That art is amazing! So colourful.
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It is cheerful while walking up Devonport Road, as there is quite a bit of new construction due to new earthquake requirements.
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Fantastic! Love this street art and especially when old boring silos are painted – stunning!
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Hi Nilla, it is fantastic and there are some very talented street artists. This year there is even an artist from Italy 🙂
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I’m not surprised, there are loads of artists in Italy. 😉
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I know though some of the graffiti artists leave a lot to be desired.
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I love street art – it brings a city to life – and these murals are next level good.
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Ooh; an excellent reason to visit Tauranga! I love that towns are really embracing street art; Whangarei and Whanganui both have lots of work that has been created in the last few years too.
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Gorgeous! How lucky you are to have that art in your town. We are getting more and more street art here where we live, but not nearly enough as far as I’m concerned.
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