Traffic light signal boxes? Lamp posts? Public buses? Usually these are ordinary, neutral features of a city. However, New Zealand is taking this to a whole new level – using these urban spaces as canvases to provoke public opinions or promote young artists.
In the capital city of Wellington, Graffiti artists have ‘bombed a bus’ with vivacious spray-painting in a joint project between bus company Go Wellington and aerosol artists Cut Collective and Via Grafik. The bus provokes both smiles and frowns from commuters who reflect on the continuing debate of whether graffiti is vandalism or street art.
Meanwhile, in the capital’s community of Lower Hutt, the E Tu Hutt Valley Public Art Trust is busy with plans to refit lamp-posts in the central business district with vertical light-boxes that will feature changing displays of work by local tertiary art students.
And artist Simon Hurley was commissioned by the council in the town of Hastings to bring vibrancy to a street-side traffic light signal box. Located outside the library, Hurley painted the box to look like a stack of giant books, with sign-written titles paying homage to the region’s most well known books and authors.
[via Random Specific]
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