Martin Bailey, ‘Auckland Point School Mural’ (1976), Auckland Point School, Whakatū Nelson.

Image: Photographer unknown, c.1976. Courtesy: Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua [Ref: Art and Craft Education - INSEA [International Society for Education through Art] Project - M. Howell - Project officer. AAZY W3901 674 R20476656: Sep 792] [use approved by Archives NZ]

International Society for Education through Art (InSEA)

Mike Howell

Geoff Heath

Auckland Point School, 111 Haven Rd, Stepneyville, Whakatū Nelson

Auckland Point School Mural

Martin Bailey and David Waterman, The Sun (Nelson Day Nursery mural) (1976), Nelson Day Nursery, Whakatū Nelson.

Image: Photographer unknown, c.1976. Courtesy: Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua [Ref: Art and Craft Education - INSEA [International Society for Education through Art] Project - M. Howell - Project officer. AAZY W3901 674 R20476656: Sep 792]

Chris Hay

Southern wall of Municipal Pool building, Nelson Day Nursery, 199 Bridge St (now Bridge St Kindergarten), Whakatū Nelson

The Sun

Martin Bailey studied at the Wellington Polytechnic School of Visual Communication Design (now Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University), graduating in 1979. He freelanced as an illustrator (specialising in airbrush), working for designers, ad agencies and children’s publishers for over 25 years in Wellington, Sydney, Auckland, Tokyo, and San Francisco.

More recently he has been working as a storyboard artist for TV commercials and movies, as well as publishing his own range of children’s books.