PTT Blurb

This is a blurb about the journal Painting the Town.

Painting the town was a book all about the Christchurch street artwork in town. People do this because of the 2011 earthquakes, the people wanted to make the city more colourful and good-looking like they’re building a new city. There is a group called Gap Filler helped made art on temporary spaces like walls and roofs including the paintings of large murals. On December 2013, two public art events took place.

A project called From the Ground Up brought a group of New Zealand artists to Christchurch for a week of creativity on the streets; and a major street art festival called Rise opened. That month, artists from New Zealand, Australia, and Belgium painted fifteen artworks on city walls.

One of the first public artwork was made after the earthquakes is painted by Wayne Youle, the painting is called “I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour”. It is thirty-seven metres long. It is painted like a giant shadow board which is a gadget that organises a set of tool, But he didn’t painted just tools. You can find many different things like musical instruments, toys and animals too.

Another artist I will be talking about is Holly Ross, Along with her friend Olivia Laita. Together they painted “We Got The Sunshine” which is a brightly-coloured sentence over the wall near the Cardboard Cathedral on Madras Street. Holly says she wanted to do something that makes people extremely happy and very delighted.