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During 2021 we are conducting site visits around Aotearoa to document works on the register, meet with people associated with them, and hunt for more works. Stay tuned for the results!

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The book "WANTED: The Search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor" was launched on 3 March 2018. Click through to the Massey University Press webpage for more information.

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A 20th Century Public Art tour of Ōtepoti Dunedin wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the University of Otago and Otago Polytech where major artworks by some of NZ’s art superstars can be found...

Leaving Te Tihi-o-Maru Timaru, we carried on to Ōtepoti Dunedin. North of the city, we stopped to see Moira Joy Crossman’s 1999 sculpture ‘Te Ara ō kiwa i te Mauri ō Takaroa: A spiritual pathway of the ocean’ in Waikouaiti. Ōtepoti itself is full of 20th Century Public Art with notable destinations including the Dunedin Central Library, and Dunedin Hospital amongst others. Some highlights are featured here. Stay tuned for the rest!

Our public art tour of Ōtautahi Christchurch concluded with visits to the Ara Institute and Lincoln University, including some delightful encounters. The next day we set off bright and early through endlessly rolling mists to Te Tihi-o-Maru Timaru. Once again, here are a few highlights...

Our visit to Ōtautahi Christchurch continued with a trip to the University of Canterbury’s Ilam Campus. What we saw had a distinctly Pacific aesthetic. Here’s a selection, with a few notes:

This year we’ve been undertaking a series of road trips around Aotearoa on the hunt for 20th Century public artworks. Today we start a series showing some of what we’ve found. First up: Ōtautahi Christchurch (Part 1).

The final work (that we’ve found) of Guy’s 20th Century ouevre was another mural using reflective adhesive, made in 1985 for a (then) new National Bank branch in Kirikiriroa Hamilton. This work has now disappeared (most likely destroyed).

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