Summer is street art season, and two new murals are now gracing the walls of Dunedin buildings.
Despite recent sweltering conditions, Perth artist Rene Brink was quite at home in Stafford St creating the 5m by 4m The Pool Of Life.
The work is one Mr Brink has previously painted, and was selected in conjunction with Dunedin’s Street Art Trust.
"I had artist’s block and I sometimes use a technique where I put a scribble on a page and draw into it," he said.
"This is a character which evolved in a continuous line, one-third bird, one-third human, one-third single-cell organism, representing how all living creatures have a connection."
The scaffolding has come down from the new artwork on the Moray Pl wall opposite Presbyterian Support Otago.
Chief executive Gillian Bremner had stared at that blank canvas for years while on the way to her office, and this year decided to take advantage of the fact the building was owned by PSO to commission a mural which summed up the organisation’s work.
The design, of three children playing, was created by Stickum Co-operative’s Aroha Novak and Guy Howard-Smith.
It was entered in a Resene Paints competition and won the "To Be Painted" category.
The prize is now on the wall, being the paint used to create the mural.
"I think it has achieved exactly what we set out to do — they look ready to take on the world," Mrs Bremner said.
