Dunedin 

Holly Rocck

<div>Holly Rocck is a member of the&nbsp;Stick Up Girlz crew. Originally from Christchurch she is now based in Wellington. Holly specialises in typography and lettering. Her Rain Dance mural can be found in the Vogel St Kitchen carpark area.&nbsp;</div>

Words are Weapons

Unknown Artist

<div>This stencil is locally known as 'The Stencil Boy' and has been living on this heritage delivery door for countless years. You will find this up an alley at the back of the Les Mills Gym, turn left by the stone wall and walk up the alley till you find it. The alley is L shaped.</div>

Stencil 

Fluke

<div>Canadian artist Fluke painted this mural on the Castle Lecture theatre, OTAGO UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. A Hongi is a traditional Maori greeting done by pressing one's nose and forehead at the same time, to another encounter, similar to a formal handshake. During the Hongi, the ha (breath of life) is exchanged.&nbsp;</div>

Hongi

Aroha Novak & Guy Howard-Smith (Stickum Coop)

<div>This site specific mural by the local duo wraps its way around two sides of a commercial building showing family fun and pay.</div>

Untitled

Larrisa McMillan

<div>Wellington based artist &amp; author Larrisa McMillan creates typography and lettering using the Black Gothic Font.&nbsp;</div>

Tess Petley

<div>Tessa Petley is an artist and designer who has painted many walls in&nbsp;<br>Dunedin. Follow Walton Park Road all the way around till you get to the Sports Grounds. This fauna &amp; flora piece is painted on the public changing rooms.</div>

Jarus & Caratoes

<div>Jarus (Canada) and Caratoes (Belguim) painted this laneway piece in Jan '17. It is an exciting collaboration clearly showing both of their styles.You will find it at the very end of this long laneway if you enter from the Police Street entrance or turn right if you enter from the bond Street entrance.&nbsp;</div>

Tyler Kennedy Stent

<div>local artist Tyler Kennedy Stent has painted a tribute to one of New Zealand's most important artists, Ralph Hotere (Died Feb. 2013).<br>Tyler has used water colours for the main portrait area which he has put layers of protection over and used acrylics for the rest of the mural.</div>

Ralph Hotere Tribute 

Jonathan Waters

<div>Local artist, curator &amp; art educator Jonathon Waters organised a graffiti jam and got several well known graffiti artists &amp; writers to paint this wall on a local restaurant called Ombrellos.&nbsp;<br>You can view this from a council carpark as you are driving on the one way north on Cumberland Street as well as from Frederick street.</div>

Graffiti Jam

<div>You need to go inside the cafe to view this artwork. This inside mural by Tyler can be found at the Wolf at the Door Cafe, it has been painted using watercolour. Tyler Kennedy Stent also painted the mural of Ed Sherrin on Bath Street and Ralph Hotere on Carroll Street which is where this cafe is.&nbsp;</div>

Sean Duffell

<div>Sean is a local artist now living in Wellington. You can find his bright stylistic works all over the country. This can be found in a narrow space between two buildings, &nbsp;</div>

Andy McCready

<div>Andy is a local artist and she generally paints in a Pop Art style. This piece sits on both sides of the Motel on Carroll drive way so it is slightly hidden. Look for the motel and you will find her work.</div>

Emma Francesca

<div>Emma is a local artist and Illustrator. Her Subject is the very rare and endangered Yellow Eyed Penguins that live within the city limits on the Otago Peninsula. You will find this behind The Vogel St Kitchen.</div>

Empress of the penguins. 

Hugo Van Dorsser

<div>Hugo has painted this contemporary piece under the Jetty Street Overpass Bridge on Vogel Street.&nbsp;</div>

TomTom

<div><br>A religious themed mural by a local artist.</div>

The Gods are watching us.

Jon Thom

<div>Jon Thom is a local canvas artist, photographer &amp; business owner. This is his incredible first attempt at painting a mural, we are sure to see many more. Oct '14&nbsp;</div>

Phlegm

<div>An Alley piece painted in April '14. He has characterised a naive parrot, the Kakapo, the worlds heaviest bird. It's flightless, nocturnal and borrow's underground. Rodents eat the eggs so Phlegm has included a rat in the image to highlight the problem for this extremely endangered parrot.&nbsp;</div>

Guy Howard-Smith

<div>Guy Howard-Smith is a local artist who has painted many murals around Dunedin. This one was commissioned by the Southern District Health Board for Smoke Free New Zealand and is telling us not to smoke so you can keep a healthy pair of lungs like these ones.</div>

A New Dawn Rises

Tessa Petley & Daniel Mead

<div>Local artists who paint alone and together. Tessa Petley is a designer and muralist who has been painting many murals around Dunedin. Daniel Mead has painted many murals &amp; bus shelters in Dunedin &amp; Southland.<br>&nbsp;This is a site specific mural painted on the original St George Jam Factory fence that tells the historical story in pictures.&nbsp;</div>

St George Jam Factory

<div>This stencil known locally as 'The Lawnmowing Man' has lived on this wall for countless years and has recently been refreshed we assume by the original artist.<br>You will find this down a carpark driveway, you can glimpse it from the street.</div>

Stencil

NeSpoon

<div>Painted in Feb '16 by Polish artist NeSpoon using over 100 intricate stencils in her distinctive lace pattern style.s</div>

Adam Douglas

<div>This artwork was designed and co-ordinated by Adam Douglas. Community artists, some of them experienced mental illness, worked side by side for eight months on this mural project and made 1300 panels. You can find this in the main entrance to the Dunedin Public Hospital. Also in this entrance foyer is a beautiful ceramic mural.</div>

<div>Local artists who paint alone and together. Tessa Petley is a designer and muralist who has been painting many murals around Dunedin. Daniel Mead has painted many murals &amp; bus shelters in Dunedin &amp; Southland. Daniel &amp; Tessa have painted a design by NZ children book illustrator David Elliot. The design uses a humpback whale as a transport of choice carrying a local historic wooden boat.</div>

<div>You need to go inside the Laneway Cafe Bar to view these three pieces by British artist Phlegm. This is a private commission for the cafe in their service area which can be viewed from windows inside. Phlegm painted three works that are framed by the windows and easily seen. (Phlegm has painted four murals in Dunedin as well as one collaboration, five in total during three seperate visits).&nbsp;</div>

Sarah Raschke

<div>Canadian artist Sarah painted this as part of a "work a way" scheme where accomodation is exchanged for labour. The mural shows flowers and birds from the families garden. It's painted on a private residental garage so please do not walk up the path as you can view this from the public footpath.&nbsp;</div>

Bruce Mahalski

<div>Bruce Mahalski has painted animals that can be found in the Otago Museum Animal Attic collection on this suburban fence. Bruce is an artist, environmentalist and small museum owner. The Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery next to this artwork is highly recommended, well worth a visit.&nbsp;</div>

Animal Attic

Sam Sharpe

<div>&nbsp;A multi layered stencil by local artist Sam Sharp.&nbsp;<br>(share the same wall as Be Free)</div>

<div>UK artist Phlegm has painted a fish being used as a safe harbour by boats being crewed by his quirky characters. This is a reference to this area of Dunedin being built on reclaimed land that's once part of the harbour. Phlegm has used a very thin wash of blue paint to make the fish look like its swimming and the boats sailing. There is also a 'steam punk' submarine.&nbsp;</div>

Andy McCready & Sam Ovens

<div>Andy McCready in her Pop Art style and Sam has replicated a record cover by The Bats a "Dunedin Sound" band under the 'Fying Nun" record label. These are painted on narrow wall ends by a building entrance.&nbsp;</div>

Frank Gordon

<div>Frank Gordon is a Dunedin based painter, illustrator and map maker who paints in the studio as well as on the street.<br>(Note Frank's other mural adjacent to this one).</div>

Claire Rye

<div>This mural is a youth project supervised by Dunedin based artist Claire Rye for the Dunedin Collaboration Against Family Violence, stop bullying programme.</div>

Aroha South Dunedin 

James Buckner

<div>James and Hugo are sharing the same wall, James with his long tongued character and Hugo with his cubist abstract style on the steel door. You can find this piece up the alley beside the Geeky Gecko Backpakers. Glance at all the nice graffiti pieces up the alley as you walk by, you also get to get another look at Phlegms's mural from another angle.</div>

<div>Multi talented local artists Guy &amp; Aroha have painted a 30m long site specific mural telling a story about the Otago Harbour which this mural sits by. You can walk to this piece over the pedestrian walkway on the over-bridge, the stairs leading up to it start on Vogel Street, you see this one as well as 3 others.</div>

<div>Bruce Mahalski is a NZ artist and textural bone sculptor. This mural features local coastal and deep water fish.&nbsp;</div>

<div>&nbsp;Belgium artist Roa Painted in Feb '14 Tuatara,is an endangered reptile endemic to New Zealand.&nbsp;</div>

Deow

<div>Deow, New Zealand's southern most artist is from Southland. He is one of our best known graffiti writers who is now working full time as an artist. This laneway piece is painted in a favoured style of his, portrait and lettering. It is painted in the Otago colours of blue &amp; gold.&nbsp;</div>

SnotRag

<div>Australian artist. He has soften his animal skulls with a lovely patchwork background.<br><br></div>

Various Artists

<div>This wall on the side of Johnnies Southern Kitchen and adjacent to Fintan Magee's mural is generally painted by young people of varying ages from 10 - 16 years as part of a street art workshop supervised by local artist and teacher, Johnathan Waters.<br>The artwork changes but will always surprise and delight you, just remember children are painting it.</div>

The Changing Wall

<div>Bruce Mahalski has painted animals that can be found in the Otago Museum Animal Attic collection on this suburban fence.&nbsp;</div>

James Bellaney

<div>NZ Artist, Abstract, explosion of colour telling a Maori Myth<br><br></div><div><br></div>

Te Kore

<div>Tyler Kennedy Stent presently lives in Dunedin but often travels. He is primarily a studio artist and paints on canvas with water colour. He has painted inside murals but this portrait of Ed Sheehan is his first outside mural. He painted this work using water colours but has protected it with several protective layers. This mural is very unique because of Tylers use of watercolour paint and also because it is the first mural to be painted of the musician Ed Sheehan who visited it and took a selfie during his 3 concert tour in Dunedin during Easter 2018. (This mural is adjacent to Roa's work).</div>

Ed Sheeran 

Bezt [Etam Cru]

<div>This work by Polish artist Bezt is best viewed from it's perspective point by Fintan Magee's wall as the profile of the wall he painted on changes and its's in the busy Casino carpark. Bezt's subject is painted in a European Mythology style and his beautiful lady is dying.&nbsp;</div>

The hunter becomes the hunted.

<div>Guy is a local artist has painted an educational mural meant to have an impact on students who live in the area and remind them that the planet may explode if they don't recycle their rubbish. It shows a little girl picking up rubbish, Apollo, cherubs &amp; fireballs from a disintegrating planet.</div>

Pick up your rubbish

Hyuro

<div>Argentina artist Hyuro is a surrealist painter who favours subtle colours. She always has a strong narrative in her artwork so its exciting to always analysis it. April '15.<br>(This shares the same carpark area as Natalia Rak's work)</div>

<div>Bruce Mahalski is a NZ artist and textural bone sculptor. He has painted musicians from the pioneering "Dunedin Sound" scene. The gentleman with the sunglasses is Peter Gutteridge from Snapper and the one on the left is Martin Phillips from The Chills.<br>Look through the wire fence on the empty section beside the Crown Hotel to find this artwork.</div>

Dunedin Sound 

<div>You need to look up to find this small work by Hydro. The empty dress signifies the fact that the buildings in this Warehouse Precinct were once empty but it is now a vibrant, thriving area full of apartments and business's. This is behind The Vogel St Kitchen.</div>

Unoccupied 

Filipa Fairy

<div>Local artist Filipa Fairy has painted a deign by Tara Douglas.</div>

Greg Lewis

<div>Local artist. This painting of Nelson Mandela is a replication of the 2013 New Yorker Magazine Cover. Please respect that this artwork is in a residential area.&nbsp;<br>(Queen Street is off Duke Street and close to Jonathan Waters House covered mural.)<br><br></div>

Nelson Mandela

Maggie Covell

<div>Maggie is a Kiwi artist who is influenced by 16th Century German wood cuts and 18th Century English illustrators. Don't walk too fast as you may pass this hidden piece, it sits in a single carpark next to a large public carpark.&nbsp;</div>

Cab Nov

<div>This doodle art mural is a wonderful collaboration between Dunedin Based artist Jonathan Waters and Invercargill based artist Dnovio aka Cab Nov. This is painted on the side of the Lead Balloon Cafe which can be seen on the one way street going north near the corner of Great King Street and Albany Street.</div>

Doodles 

<div>This image can be found on the public toilet block on the mall part of Lorne Street that runs off King Edward Street.&nbsp;<br>Claire Rye is a local artist who was commissioned by 'Keep NZ Beautiful' to paint this. Claire has an important message to read on the mural about how important our wetlands are.</div>

Devon Smith

<div>Devon is a local artist who has painted this lovely piece in a book illustration style. This is behind The Vogel St Kitchen.</div>

Aroha Novak & Guy Howard-Smith

<div>The Stickum co-op painted this with feed back from the children at George Street Normal School who's playground this mural shares. You can view this through the fence during school hours and only enter the playground from the gate out of school hours.&nbsp;</div>

George Street Normal School 

Mica Still

<div>Mica is originally from the USA now living in Wellington, NZ. Mica favours Wolf Art and this colour palette.&nbsp;</div>

<div>Local artists Aroaha &amp; Guy have painted a beautiful warm coloured mural in the southern suburb of Caversham.</div>

Reach for the Stars

<div>Filipa is a local artist who has painted a site specific mural on the side of The Playhouse Theatre. Because it's a heritage building it has been painted with sepia colours.</div>

Be Free

<div>Be Free is a Melbourne artist who's pasteups and painted works cover many area's in Melbourne. You will also be able to find these two pieces from the POLICE STREET entrance to this long laneway. The laneway has three entrances. Be Free's work always depicts children mischievously playing.&nbsp;</div>

<div>Kiwi artist Maggie Covell has painted a perfect way to replace an address. You will find this outside the Pavlova Backpackers.</div>

<div>Kiwi artist Sean Duffell has developed a distinctive style of artwork but in his early days painting on the streets of NZ as Ghstie he put up a variety of art, he's always popular with fans of street art.</div>

Illustrated Map

<div>James Buckner is a local artist who paints on canvas as well as walls. This is a laneway piece.</div>

Bond Street Kings

<div>&nbsp;A Graffiti wall painted by various kiwi artists ( and one french man, piece on the far right) who all have a connection to Dunedin.&nbsp;<br>LtoR Sean Duffell, Dager Media, Nigel Roberts, Harley Jones, Mica Still, Bongo, Trust Me, Rame.</div>

Daniel Mead

<div>This greyscale site specific mural by local artist Daniel Mead is under the HW1 motorway bridge. It celebrates Maxwell Bury the architect who designed the University of Otago Clock Tower building in 1879.&nbsp;<br>On the opposite side of the road is a modern piece showing stylised cats by an unknown artist.<br>If you glance over the bridge onto the Leith River flood walls you will see some ever changing colourful graffiti art. If you walk along the path that is on the far side of the river and follow it along you will come to another bride and see graffiti art pieces here as well.</div>

<div>Southland based artist Deow likes to paint birds and portraits, he comes from a graffiti background and his lettering skills are fantastic. This portrait work can be found in the Motel on Carroll car park, just walk up the driveway to find it. (You will find a pop art style artwork at the beginning of the driveway)</div>

<div>Sean is a local artist now living in Wellington. You can find his bright stylistic works all over the country. This long piece has an ocean theme in his iconic style. Very appropriate for the harbour basin setting. (You can walk over the overbridge from Vogel Street to see this one &amp; 3 others)</div>

Tess Sheerin

<div>Tess is a Kiwi artist and environmental activist. She painted this mural using the Gesso Release method. The mural tells us to be plastic free and save our oceans. It's located in the Countdown Supermarket carpark.</div>

Pollution Awareness mural

Ian Ross

<div>San Francisco based artist Ian Ross is an environmental artist who paints with a purpose. His botanical style mural can be found inside the Heritage Coffee Cafe in their inside-outside courtyard.&nbsp;</div>

<div>Bruce Mahalski is a NZ artist and textural bone sculptor. He has painted Tutankhamum with gold paint. This is in South Dunedin a small narrow road off King Edward Street.</div>

<div>Southland artist Deow paints often in Dunedin, this massive 47x6m wall has the Otago colours of blue &amp; gold as a background and features the Tui, a native bird.</div>

<div>Local artists Aroha &amp; Guy have painted three happy children, confidently taking a leap that life offers. They represent these family values, be strong, safe &amp; connected.<br>You will find this opposite the Presbyterian First Church.</div>

Take the Leap

<div>You need to go inside the premises to see this artwork. Claire has created a wonderful interior decor for the Good Good Restaurant that has a street, hip hop, grunge feel. She has covered a feature wall and the counter in layers of tags and throws. The other artwork inside this restaurant including at the entrance is by MICHAEL D COOKE.</div>

Good Good 

artist unknown

<div>This has been living on the wall of a driveway for a while and can be seen from the public footpath. It's a portrait of American rapper Action Bronson who was also a member of the famous graffiti crew Smart Crew from NYC.</div>

Action Bronson

<div>You can see this mural from South Road so its a short walk up Goodall St to view it. It tells the story about an unusual worm, the Peripatus (Velvet) worm that is 500 million years old and still&nbsp; lives in the area.</div>

Velvet Worm

Fintan Magee

<div>Australian artist Fintan Magee painted this in March '15 in the Scenic Southern Cross Hotel carpark. Fintan has used three local children as subjects for this artwork.&nbsp;</div>

Chasing the thin white cloud.

Jack Pillans

<div>A local artist who has painted this artwork in the pointillism style using aerosol-spraypaint dots. The piece covers two walls and ceiling of a small alley next to the Rialto Movie theatre. It's fun to try and count how many Ravens you can see, count whole and part of ones, also consider that Jack has layered them.</div>

<div>Local artist Filipa Fairy has painted native birds and flowers for this private commission which sits beside a public walkway/steps.<br>(Not far down this road on Rattray, Broadway &amp; High streets you will see five murals grouped closely together by various international and national artists).</div>

<div>Sean is a local artist now living in Wellington. You can find his bright stylistic works all over the country. This can be found near the entrance to the terminal.</div>

<div>Jonathan Waters is a local visual artist and designer. This artwork covers the front of a residential house in small illustrative objects that represent the 24/7 Dairy Store this building used to house and stuff Otago University students can relate to.</div>

Legend Dairy 

Beth Moody

<div>local artist Beth Moody was 17 years old when she painted this first time mural in her surrealist style. You will find this by the Casino carpark close to the Bezt &amp; Jacob Yikes murals.&nbsp;</div>

Mind over Matter

<div>This mural was painted on student rental accomodation to prevent the constant tagging the property got. It works and is a wonderful bright addition to the street by a local artist.&nbsp;</div>

Linsay Crooks

<div>The late Linsay Crooks was a multi media artist who sometimes painted walls. This seaside mural on the St Clair Surf Lifesavers Clubrooms wall welcomes you to the famous St Clair surfing beach.</div>

<div>Aroha &amp; Guy have painted a Taniwai, a supernatural creature in Maori tradition that is similar to serpents or dragons in other cultures.&nbsp;<br>This is on the corner of Gordon and Factory Roads by the public restrooms.</div>

Taniwha

Bik Ismo

<div>Puerto Rico artist Bik Ismo is well known for his metallic chrome style. You will find his Bull hidden down a pathway that leads down beside a carpark, if you can't find the path just walk into the car park and look up to your right.</div>

Chrome Bull

<div>Find the Crown Hotel and you will find this work by two local artists. The subject is the Chinese Grandfather of the Grandsons who own the hotel and tells the story of the early settlers who made Dunedin the great city it is today. No reason for the portrait being painted purple as it was just a colour that was in plentiful supply to the artists.&nbsp;</div>

Phlegm & Pixel Pancho Collab.

<div>This world first collaboration with Phlegm and Pixel Pancho is painted in a sepia colour-way. The scene depicts both their iconic styles and they have incorporated the Ivy growing on the wall into their imagery by painting ivy into the storyline. The real Ivy is taking over and winning the battle though.&nbsp;</div>

<div>Painted by young people and supervised by local artists for Youth Week 2014. This massive wall covers the whole of Wilkie Road starting from King Edward Street. The wall is 170m/553ft long.</div>

<div>A Graffiti wall painted in early 2015 by kiwi artists with a connection to Dunedin. The 'Pie' is by Dager Media, then Karms, Ghstie and Trust Me.<br>Look around on both sides of the Leith Stream flood bank walls and underneath the road bridge for constant changing local graffiti while you are there.,<br>Further along the Leith Stream at The (Botanical) Gardens plus Woodhaugh&nbsp;<br>Gardens Intersections you will see more constant changing local graffiti by looking over the fence at the colourful flood walls.&nbsp;</div>

Faith47

<div>Painted in April '16 The 2500 - 2450 BC dated are weaving in subtle references to dates of ancient wars and schools of hypnotism.</div>

7.83hz Human Resonance Frequency Series.

Natalia Rak

<div>Painted in May '15 by Polish artist Natalia Rak in her realist style using bright strong colours.<br>Note the wonderful detail she goes to with the reflection in the lens on the glasses.&nbsp;<br>(This shares the same carpark area as Hyuro's artwork).</div>

Love is in the air.

<div>Painted by young people and supervised by local artists for Youth Week 2015. This massive wall runs along the Donaghy Factory wall. The wall is 67m long.</div>

<div>You need to go inside the cafe to view this. This water colour inside mural, an interpretation of Thomas Gainsborough's famous Blue Boy, by Tyler can be found at the Morning Magpie Cafe. There is generally a great array of framed art in this cafe as they are great supporters of local artists. Tyler Kennedy Stent also painted the mural of Ed Sherrin on Bath Street and Ralph Hotere on Carroll Street.&nbsp;</div>

Blue Boy 

Kell Sunshine

<div>Kelly Spencer aka Kell Sunshine is a freelance graphic artist based in Wellington. She is an illustrative artist, sign painter and muralist. This sperm whale has an environmental message written on the wall so please make a point of reading it. You can walk to this wall on the overbridge that starts from Vogel Street where you will find this as well as 3 other works.</div>

Sperm Whale 

Dreamze

GirlsOnTopCrew

<div>Dreamze visited Dunedin from the England, meet up with a Graff buddy and painted his graff lettering while a member of the all girls graffiti crew from England painted the Kea bird.</div>

<div>Daniel has been painting murals and bus shelters in Dunedin and Southland for many years. He painted this site specific war memorial for the Mosgiel RSA Club. This profoundly moving piece is best viewed at sunrise or sunset.</div>

War 

<div>Alley Cantina Mexican Mural by local artists.</div>

Pixel Pancho

<div>Painted in Oct '14. Italian artist Pixel Pancho generally paints robotic, machinery, steam punk style. You won't miss this one as it sits on one of Dunedin's busiest intersections.</div>

Riding dreams.

Toothfish

<div>Toothfish is a fictional environmental activist &amp; street artist who has been using posters and stickers to raise awareness of environmental issues since 2010 and as done a number of murals around New Zealand and in England. This mural can also be viewed from a distance from the footpath on the overhead bridge by the stairway beside 77 Vogel Street. You get a nice view of the Otago Harbour as well as the Toothfish mural.</div>

Revenge of the ocean.

René Brink

<div>You can view this work from just inside the entrance door to Petridish. René is a Perth, Australian based artist and he painted this inside stairwell piece at the same time he painted his outside mural which is next door to this building and in view. If you go further up the stairs to level two you will see the doodle art piece by local artist Johnathan Waters.</div>

<div>Guy Howard Smith is a local artist who has painted several murals in Dunedin. He has painted two murals at Arana College which is a Hall of Residence at the University of Otago. You can see one of these murals from iron gate on Clyde Street, this is of James Allen a former chancellor who the local Maori called Arana. To view the other you need to go towards the main entrance up the driveway, this image is about protecting our oceans from rubbish.</div>

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