A photograph of a film crew recording outside the Christchurch Art Gallery on Montreal Street. The Art Gallery was used as the temporary headquarters for Civil Defence after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of street art on a support pillar of the Durham Street overbridge. The artwork depicts tag writing in shades of pink, surrounded by previously written tag art in various other colours.
A photograph of boxes and office supplies inside the Christchurch Art Gallery on Montreal Street. The Art Gallery was used as the temporary headquarters for Civil Defence after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of street art on Hackthorne Road in Cashmere.
View of the Christchurch Art Gallery building from Gloucester Street.
Materials stacked in the foyer of the Christchurch Art Gallery.
A photograph of street art on Hackthorne Road in Cashmere.
Rubble and colourful street art on London Street in Lyttelton.
Street art outside the Pacific Brands building on Victoria Street.
The Botanic Gardens with the Art Centre in the background.
A photograph of boxes stacked inside the Christchurch Art Gallery.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Christchurch Art Gallery".
This thesis considers the presence and potential readings of graffiti and street art as part of the wider creative public landscape of Christchurch in the wake of the series of earthquakes that significantly disrupted the city physically and socially. While documenting a specific and unprecedented period of time in the city’s history, the prominence of graffiti and street art throughout the constantly changing landscape has also highlighted their popularity as increasingly entrenched additions to urban and suburban settings across the globe. In post-quake Christchurch, graffiti and street art have often displayed established tactics, techniques and styles while exploring and exposing the unique issues confronting this disrupted environment, illustrating both a transposable nature and the entwined relationship with the surrounding landscape evident in the conception of these art forms. The post-quake city has afforded graffiti and street art the opportunity to engage with a range of concepts: from the re-activation and re-population of the empty and abandoned spaces of the city, to commentaries on specific social and political issues, both angry and humorous, and notably the reconsideration of entrenched and evolving traditions, including the distinction between guerrilla and sanctioned work. The examples of graffiti and street art within this work range from the more immediate post-quake appearance of art in a group of affected suburbs, including the increasingly empty residential red-zone, to the use of the undefined spaces sweeping the central city, and even inside the Canterbury Museum, which housed the significant street art exhibition Rise in 2013-2014. These settings expose a number of themes, both distinctive and shared, that relate to both the post-disaster landscape and the concerns of graffiti and street art as art movements unavoidably entangled with public space.
A photograph of street art painted on a wall. The artwork shows a tui and kowhai flowers.
A photograph of unfinished art work using Maori motifs at the Community Law Centre on Madras Street.
A photograph of street art on Pilgrim Place, taken from across the railway lines, through the Colombo Street overbridge.
A photograph of street art near Fitzgerald Avenue. The artist is Benjamin Work.
A photograph of tag writing and street art on the wall of a building on Fitzgerald Avenue.
A photograph of tag writing and street art on the wall of a building located on Fitzgerald Avenue.
A photograph of street art near Fitzgerald Avenue. The artist is Benjamin Work.
A photograph of street art on the side of a building between Brighton Mall and Hawke Street.
A photograph of street art on a building between Brighton Mall and Beresford Street.
A photograph of street art on Pilgrim Place, taken from across the railway lines, through the Colombo Street overbridge.
A photograph of a detail of street art near City Mall. The artist is BMD.
A photograph of street art on Pilgrim Place, taken from across the railway lines, through the Colombo Street overbridge.
A photograph of street art in the Addington Saleyards, taken before the Canterbury earthquakes. The artist is Fiasco.
A photograph of street art on Ferry Road. The photographer attributes the work to APEK and JFK.
A photograph of street art on a building between Brighton Mall and Beresford Street.
A photograph of street art on the back wall of the AJ Creative Glass building on Fitzgerald Avenue.
A photograph of street art on the public toilets on Shaw Avenue.