Grand scale public art on buildings

Photos by Gerard O'Brien.
Photos by Gerard O'Brien.

The walls of old Dunedin factories, warehouses and commercial buildings, long since converted to flats, offices and auction houses, continued their transformations into open-air galleries yesterday as artists took up their paint cans in another painting session during the Dunedin Street Art festival.

Clockwise from left: Motorists in Manse St watched Italian artist Pixel Pancho progress his robot horse and rider on the side of the Chipmunks building in Princes St; former Dunedin man Sean Duffel filled in his ''canvas'' on the former Donald Reid's office building at the corner of Jetty and Vogel Sts; Australian artist Be-Free worked on the second of two pieces on the former Forno's Auction House in Bond St and Wellington artist Mica Still continued a massive mural on the side of the former Ross and Glendining factory at 8 Stafford St.

The artists are four of nine painting walls in Dunedin's historic warehouse area during the two weeks of the festival.

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