Ruth Gardner's Blog 13/06/2014: Stencilling Students

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An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 13 June 2014 entitled, "Stencilling Students".

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A photograph of the All Right? logo and website stencilled onto a foot path.

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A photograph of the All Right? logo and website stencilled onto a pedestrian crossing area.

Now Panic and Freak Out Photograph 1

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A photograph of stencilled street art on a fence beside the St Martins Road roundabout. The stencil, created by Kerry Parnell, depicts daleks and space invaders, and reads, "Now panic and freak out".

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The gate to Weston House, with '62 Park Terrace' stencilled on it.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 5 (5)

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A student stencilling words onto furniture as part of the Words of Hope project.

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Samo Coffee Lounge stencils and street art next to the Wunderbar on London Street, Lyttelton.

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A photograph of an All Right? stencil being cleaned, next to a bus stop on Ferry Road. There is an All Right? advertisement in the Adshel bus stop, which reads, "Tried something a little different lately?".

Bringing Music to the Masses

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A digitally manipulated photograph of a stencilled logo for the Christchurch School of Music. The photographer comments, "The Christchurch School of Music donated several old broken pianos to be placed on Gap Filler sites in Christchurch. Gap Filler make the land where buildings have been demolished into places the local inhabitants can enjoy. As in Maths two negatives make a positive".

Spence Kingi Commemorative Art Work

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A graffiti-style recruitment advertisement for the NZ Police, depicting police officer Spence Kingi pulling a woman from the rubble.

Police Art on Montreal St, Christchurch

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A graffiti-style recruitment advertisement for the NZ Police, depicting police officer Spence Kingi pulling a woman from the rubble.

Wonky Peterborough Photograph 1

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A photograph of stencilled words on a footpath on Peterborough Street. The words read, "On Peterborough Street the houses are wonky. The ground has been pulled out from underneath them. The trick worked and the houses stayed up, but they are wonky. If you lived in them you might become wonky too".

Constable Nao Yoshimizu Comforts a Relative of an Earthquake Victim

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A graffiti-style recruitment advertisement for the NZ Police, depicting police officer Nao Yoshimizu comforting the grieving relative of an earthquake victim. The image has been further graffitied to hide the officer's uniform, and the original advertisement text ("You too can do something extraordinary. Become a cop.") altered to read "You too can do something ordinary. Become a human".