The Mitre Tavern on the corner of Canterbury Street and Norwich Quay in Lyttelton.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Horse Bazaar on Lichfield Street.
A photograph of the Canterbury Horse Bazaar on Lichfield Street, blocked off by wire fencing.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Horse Bazaar on Lichfield Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Horse Bazaar on Lichfield Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Horse Bazaar on Lichfield Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Horse Bazaar on Lichfield Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Horse Bazaar on Lichfield Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Horse Bazaar on Lichfield Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The cleared site of Ground, corner on London and Canterbury Streets, Lyttelton. A rest area and garden sales have developed here".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The cleared site of Ground, corner on London and Canterbury Streets, Lyttelton. A rest area and garden sales have developed here".
A photograph of a crowd on Cashel Street, at the start of the Canterbury Tales procession. Canterbury Tales was created by Free Theatre Christchurch, and was the main event of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of the Canterbury Trade Union Centre on the corner of Armagh Street and Madras Street. USAR codes have been spray painted on the wall.
The roof of a house on Canterbury Street in Lyttelton is patched up with mismatched sheets of corrugated iron.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 25 February 2011 showing damage to the Lyttelton Police Station on Sumner Road and London Street. Photograph taken looking west from St Davids Street. In December 2011, the New Zealand Police decided that the Lyttelton Police Station would be demolished. The building, which opened in 1882 was re...
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 26 May 2013 on Winchester Street, Lyttelton. The photograph is taken looking south from the site of the Catholic Church of St Joseph the Worker to the site of the Anglican Church of the Most Holy Trinity. Visible are the removed top of the bell tower and porch. The damaged vicarage is at the weste...
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Armagh Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Armagh Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "London Street, Lyttelton".
A photograph of the Canterbury Trade Union Centre on the corner of Armagh Street and Madras Street. USAR codes have been spray painted on the left column.
A photograph of the earthquake-damaged Canterbury Provincial Council buildings on Durham Street.
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.
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 27 April 2011 showing the site occupied by the Volcano Restaurant, the Lava Bar, Lyttelton Fisheries and Coastal Living Design Store on London Street. The demolition of the Harbourlight Theatre is visible to the left of the photograph. The photograph is taken from Canterbury Street. The small siz...
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 15 June 2011 showing earthquake damage to the former Canterbury Hotel and adjoining row of shops on Oxford Street. This photograph was taken on Oxford Street and shows the collapsed façade of the row of shops behind safety fencing, the interior of the building is exposed. Shadbolt House is visib...
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 15 June 2011 showing earthquake damage to the former Canterbury Hotel and adjoining row of shops on Oxford Street. This photograph was taken on Oxford Street and shows the collapsed façade of the row of shops behind safety fencing, the interior of the building is exposed. The design of many older...
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "44A London Street, Lyttelton".
A photograph of a tag on a fence in front of the Wunderbar in Lyttelton.
A view across Durham Street showing damage to the stone chamber of the Canterbury Provincial Council buildings.
An aerial photograph of a detail of the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Buildings on Durham Street.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Canterbury Provincial Chambers Building on Durham Street.