FREE STREET ART PROJECT
A number of years ago it was realized that art, if not dead was dying, you go to a opening and the same old faces are always there, it seemed like a religion, and always preaching to the converted.
What to do...
Most people are so scared or bored of art that they would never walk into a gallery.
It came to us, take the art to the people, you know move the mountain etc.
This is how the Free Street Art Project got under way.
Stencil great pieces of New Zealand art on the street. Now this takes courage, 3,4 and 5 colour stencils around town is nothing to be sneezed at, unfortunately we didn't record most of these early efforts in their street form, and most are now of course, long gone.
This project is still ongoing, although now in a different form.
We soon saw that a lot of people wouldn't know what the hell these stencils were, not having seen much in way of New Zealand art before.
We decided to start the project over from the beginning, but this time start with really famous paintings, so that by the time the New Zealand art started showing up as stencils, people would understand what was going on!
A number of years ago it was realized that art, if not dead was dying, you go to a opening and the same old faces are always there, it seemed like a religion, and always preaching to the converted.
What to do...
Most people are so scared or bored of art that they would never walk into a gallery.
It came to us, take the art to the people, you know move the mountain etc.
This is how the Free Street Art Project got under way.
Stencil great pieces of New Zealand art on the street. Now this takes courage, 3,4 and 5 colour stencils around town is nothing to be sneezed at, unfortunately we didn't record most of these early efforts in their street form, and most are now of course, long gone.
This project is still ongoing, although now in a different form.
We soon saw that a lot of people wouldn't know what the hell these stencils were, not having seen much in way of New Zealand art before.
We decided to start the project over from the beginning, but this time start with really famous paintings, so that by the time the New Zealand art started showing up as stencils, people would understand what was going on!
Mona Lisa,from the second part of the Free Art project.
Notice how the council have painted around the stencil when they repainted the power box,very considerate.
These later stencils were one colour, easier on the nerves(I guess)
Rita Angus with original free art logo, this is from about 2003
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