Cromwell's Past, Present and Future

This award-winning mural represents Cromwell's shared ideas about what it thinks makes living and visiting here so unique and special. The mural project was led by Andrew Price with support from the Cromwell & District Community Trust, who received funding for the project from Transpower, Cromwell Community Board and Creative NZ.

Students from Cromwell and Goldfields Primary Schools and year ten students from Cromwell College have helped to focus and to co-create the mural with Andrew. In order to effectively depict Cromwell's current identity students from the local schools initially conducted video interviews with members of their local community to learn what and who has made (and makes) Cromwell so special. Videos of all interviewees have been digitally archived and are available for watching in the Central Otago Memory Bank, the town's digital record.

Students from the schools interviewed Ripponburn Care Home residents, Care & Friendship group members, U3A members, local business leaders, their own families and each other. Interviewee responses inspired and influenced students' early designs and then Andrew's final vision for this mural. The design process that Andrew followed helped the mural to win the category Best Mural Design, for a mural yet to be painted in Resene's 2014 mural masterpieces competition.