Point View School

Point View School requested their Whanau groups to be painted, making use of the island, colour and bird representing each group.
Each mural was created on an ACM panel, using spraypaint and acrylics, along with paint markers for outlines and finer details. It was important to the principal and staff to add some vibrancy and bold colours to these artworks, along with clear text for the names of the Whanau groups.

Papatoetoe North School

Papatoetoe North School engaged some of their year 4-6 students to design and paint alongside myself to create these three school values murals. We workshopped some ideas to understand what each of these values mean to them and how they thought they could visually represent each one. After collating the ideas from the three seperate groups I created the designs to be painted and the students joined me in putting paint to panel and creating these artworks for their school grounds.
Papatoetoe North School principal commissioned me to create murals representative of the diverse cultures within the school. With the use of patterns and bold colours, along native New Zealand birds, I designed four panels to grace the wall atop the sports court of the school.

Otahuhu School

Another school mural depicting the mostly Pasifika cultural make up of the student body, with a waka representing their growth and journey in the school. The Pukeko stands proud as the guardian in this mural, surrounded by patterns on the ray of a sun, Hibuscus and Tiare Tahiti flowers drift on the wind and waves of the ocean.

Glenavon School

Glenavon School wanted a mural to pay homage to the native fauna and flora, whilst also being vibrant and adding a splash of colour to the outdoor space where the mural is featured. This mural features Pukeko, Kakapo, the New Zealand falcon and Tui along fish, trees and flowers.

Henderson North Primary

As part of the Creatives in Schools project, I teamed up with the students and Art teacher from Henderson North Primary School to create multiple murals representing the diverse cultural make-up of their community.  Akonga and kaiako had the opportunity to bring along taonga from home that represented something special to their whanau or heritage and we incorporated these items or symbolism of these items into the larger mural. The larger mural was made up of 6 large panels that fit together to create the final artwork.
To enhance student participation we then created three more mural panels representing symbolisms from the larger Pasifika and Maori communities, utilising handprints from the students to fill in the colours on masked out panels.

Glen Eden Intermediate school

Another project for 2023 was creating a bathroom mural for the girls bathroom at Glen Eden Intermediate, as well as creating mural panels to go around the school library.
The student participation in this project was incredibly good, with each student creating their own large mural panel representing a favourite story book. 
The collaboration between students was impressive, with fast finishers jumping in to help those working more meticulously. 
The bathroom mural was completed in bright colours and with each student free-handing their floral designs straight onto the wall, allowing them to express themselves in a more spontaneous way than the hours of designing and planning that went along with the book cover panels.

West Harbour School - Auckland - House Panels

I was approached with the idea to have artworks created for the different colours of the newly founded Houses. Each house was represented by it's own colour. I worked collaboratively with the senior leadership to choose a 'mascot' for each House and used this to be incorporated into the design for each art panel. Orange - Rangi (representing the sky) - New Zealand Falcon. Silver - Waitakere (representing the mountains) - Kokako. Green - Tiriwa (representing forests) - Tuatara. Yellow - Whenua (representing fields and valleys) New Zealand Ram. Purple - Manutewhau (representing streams) Long finned eel. Blue - Waitemata (representing oceans) Hector's dolphin.

West Harbour School
Library

In 2018 I was volunteered to create a mural for the opening of the schools' new library, in honor of one of their beloved teachers who sadly passed away. I gathered information about some of the favorite books and characters and created a design including another beloved character from the school - the school dog, who also sadly passed away recently. Mrs. Titi can be found sitting atop a row of books, reading to some of the students around her, as characters from the various stories are climbing up stacks of books, flying around, reading themselves and more.

Glen Eden Intermediate School
Class room murals

Glen Eden Intermediate requested art works that would represent the diversity of their students, with a specific aim towards their Pasifika students. I collaboratively worked with one of the school members to come up with themes for the murals, and then worked out placements and designs to fulfil the brief. The designs were created to be stand alone square artworks, or joined together rectangular art pieces.

Glen Eden Intermediate - Boys bathrooms

Artworks were requested to go onto the main inside wall of the boys bathroom, to help prevent vandalism and enforce positive role models with inspirational quotes and favorite sports and activities. We decided to use silhouettes to allow for more inclusion and bring across the message that it could be any one of the boys achieving these goals or participating in these activities. A school member supplied the inspirational quotes to go along with the imagery and the bright backgrounds was used to draw attention.

Karekare School -
Name board mural panel

Piha School 
Name board mural panel