NZ art in the summer time

As per usual, I’ve been painting murals of all kinds all around New Zealand, here’s some of my recent work.

This is a large indoor wall at Northlands Shopping Centre in Christchurch:Canterbury mural

trompe l’oeil 3d effect in an Auckland backyard:

Auckland 3d mural

This was the front of the bar at the R’n’V music festival in Gisborne, which I painted for Canadian Club:bar muralThese are two large motorsport murals I created for Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell, Central Otago, celebrating their two biggest annual events.
Highlands 1 Highlands mural

A small shop interior:lunch bar mural

This piece is in the pool room of the Warrior’s gym:warriors graffiti

An old bus parked up permanently at the Amazing Maze:bus art

And a couple of kid’s bedroom murals, in Auckland and Canterbury:bedroom muralNZ bedroom mural

I’m often painting birthday banners too:1st birthday banner

I believe this is the first garden shed I’ve done, painted to look overgrown:
garden shed mural

Recently I facilitated a workshop in New Lynn, creating this mural with some local young graffiti artists:

olympic park mural

As you can see here, I can draw as well as paint!  I created this live in Sylvia Park shopping centre as a promotion for Sharpie.  It was coloured in the following day by the public.

Sharpie illustration

 

Spring Time graffiti murals

It’s being raining a lot, but I’ve still managed to paint plenty of wall art, or graffiti murals, or whatever you wanna call it!

First up, some office interior walls I’ve doing for the DHL offices in Auckland:

NZ office art

DHL office mural

DHL van

Some characters painted in the stairway going up to a Karaoke bar:

nightclub muralKareoke mural 1

A Steampunk theme for a new shop opening in Wellington:steampunk muralAn abstract bedroom feature wall:wall muralA chalkboard for Gravity Coffee:cafe coffee blackboardA 21st Birthday banner:21st birthday banner
And lastly, this one is from back during Matariki festival, painted live at The Cloud on Queen’s Wharf for 2 Degrees.matariki mural

Graffiti artist for hire

A client said to me the other day, “You should update your website more often”.  And the customer is always right!  I better start catching up.

So, firstly, here’s some recent gym murals:
gym mural LionCrossfit NZ gym muralNZ gym graffitiCrossfit graffiti mural

Here are some of my latest murals in kid’s bedrooms.
girls bedroom muralkids bedroom graffitiboys bedroom graffiti

A couple more shop graffiti art murals for my friends Cali-Mex in Hong Kong..

Hong Kong graffiti muralCalimex street art mural

Boardroom feature wall mural for the new NZME office in Northland:

nz office mural

A mural on the side of a classroom, designed and painted in collaboration with pupils of Richmond Road Primary School:

NZ school mural

And lastly, here’s the Prime Minister of New Zealand proudly tagging on one of murals.  I’m happy to say though, it’s not often people tag my murals… hopefully this just a one-off!

NZ PM graffiti

NZ Murals in the Autumn

It’s getting colder, but I’m not slowing down!  Here’s some of my latest work, firstly another feature wall for Gables restaurant:

Auckland mural

A quick graffiti piece I painted last month in Soho, Hong Kong:

Hong Kong graffiti

This is next one is up high in the flagship shop of NZ’s largest art supplies retailer, Gordon Harris:

art shop mural

This next graffiti piece is for a forthcoming new NZ TV series, they requested it to look authentic and not too detailed!

film set graffiti

A picture of my homeland on the garage door of MapCo in Tauranga:

garage mural

Another restaurant feature wall, this is in “Deco” in Titirangi, a reproduction of an old newspaper clipping.  Yes, this is hand-painted!

restaurant feature wall

And lastly, neither a mural nor graffiti, this a sand sculpture of a Maui dolphin with snapper in foreground, created with my talented colleagues Paul Walsh and Elliot Stewart out at Piha beach.

NZ sand sculpture

Late summer wall murals NZ

Autumn is here, and I’m still painting wall murals NZ-wide, rain or shine, inside and out!

This is a mural for the University of Canterbury:

wall mural chch chch mural artist

A Lower Hutt themed mural for a corporate office in Lower Hutt:

wellington mural

A banner for a night market stall:

banner nz

An inner city piece on Queen’s Wharf, Auckland:

graffiti art nz

This one is a collaboration with Byron Bay artist Nitsua:street art nz

Some graffiti art I painted with friends in Hong Kong:

HK graffiti art

A changing room wall for my pals the Warriors… get ’em boys!!

warriors since 1995

This one is in a pizza restaurant, painted with my colleague Paul Walsh:

wall art auckland

A couple of historic Auckland themed murals for Gables bar and restaurant:

wall art nz

 

Auckland wall mural

Gyms always need murals!  here’s some of the latest…

gym mural auckland crossfit mural nzwall mural auckland

And something for the kids…

kids bedroom mural

kids wall art

 

Graffiti art in the summer

I’ve managed to get a bit of work done in between summer excursions and holidays, but now that February is here it’s all on!   These are some of recent commissions..

Crossfit MCR, coming soon to Epsom!

crossfit samuraicrossfit rider

Clothing store “Loaded” on Newmarket’s Broadway was ram-raided recently, and got me to capture the moment in a graffiti art mural painted on the temporary shop front!

Loaded NZ

And here’s a new one, a painting on a 21st key for a fan of the outdoors…

21st key