Topic: Rotorua Street Art
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These electricity boxes appear all around the CBD and are painted by various local artists with the paint supplied by Unison & Resene.
Marc Spijkerbosch originally painted some 27 Unison cabinets with the first batch completed in 1994. This was a ‘Keep Rotorua Beautiful Committee’ initiative to combat the graffiti and posting of advertising material etc on them.
They were originally paintings of 27 different local lakes.
These were refreshed/painted over in 2009 by engaging a number of local artists – a project led by Kiri Jarden, then Community Arts Officer, RDC.
Photographs taken by Faeryl Rotherham August 2013 -
The artists are : Jill Walker ; Simon Stanway ; A. Croft ; Marc Spijkerbosch ; Amy Evans ; Angela Frank ; Amanda Jennifer Dennis ; Dunc J ; R. Hiha and Karen S. Miller.
Previously these boxes were had mostly Marc Spijkerbosch art adorning them.
Summer 2017 - Photographs by A.Leigh. New art adorns these same Unison boxes - Artists Jessica Newman-Murphy, Paul X Walsh, Anna Gedson, Jean Van der Molen, Katie Stewart, Nikdeluxe, Noomz, Geri Judd, Ila-Rose Hepetema, Stephanie Mitchell, Maria Marshall, Eleanor Crowley, Stephen Arthur and David Daniel.
