City Art Project

You art is on display for the public to see!

All the hard work you put into our City Art Project is now being enjoyed by visitors to the city centre.

Go and have a look with your family.

Your art should be returned to school in February for you to take home.

City Art Project

Take a look at our fantastic artwork.

All these artworks have been painted on to an A4 size piece of plywood and will be displayed in the city centre over Christmas and the New Year.

As part of our thinking about these artworks we looked at some graffiti artists.

Each of our artworks has some thinking behind it.  
Our pictures are "visual metaphors" for how we each value learning and education.

Can you think of some messages to go with our pictures? What do they make you think?

City Art Project

Thinking about our artwork and the meaning we want to express.

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What's your message?

What symbols have you used in your image?

What do your symbols communicate? Say?

Is your message clear?

Few or no words

What colours will you use to add to the meaning or thinking?

City Art Project

Take a look at these word clouds

They represent the top ideas from your thinking about what you value most about school and learning

The next step is to use these ideas to help us get some direction for our city art work.

Decide on some keywords that you want to try to express in a visual way.

Take a look at these images.

Kowhaiwhai Patterns

The Maori word Kowhaiwhai refers to a traditional red, white and black colored pattern. These colors resemble the origin of the Maori tribes and were commonly found on rafters and meeting houses.

More specific; they refer to ancestral lineage and genealogy. In this matter the patterns are an expression of the power and spirits of the ancestors (genealogical mana).

The names of the specific patterns on the picture are from top to bottom; Koiri,, Patiki, Kuhoro and Mangotipi.

Kowhaiwhai ornamental scroll paintings traditionally decorated walls and ceilings of dining halls (whare kai) and ancestral houses (whare whakairo).

This ancient Maori tradition of creating complex and symmetrical patterns represent the stories of legendary ancestors.