Untitled [Angus, Flood & Griffiths Office Mural]

1958

Martin Roestenburg

Accessible

Type

  • Mural

Medium

  • Ceramic

Dimensions

  • H1920 x W5180 x D10mm

Martin Roestenburg, Untitled [Angus, Flood & Griffiths Mural] (1958), Whitiora, Kirikiriroa Hamilton

Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2022

1958–Current

Street facing façade of the former office of Angus, Flood and Griffiths (1088 Victoria Street), CBD, Kirikiriroa Hamilton

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Description

Located on the front exterior façade of the former Angus, Flood & Griffiths architectural office building, this mosaic mural consists of small painted hexagonal glazed ceramic tiles. The mural depicts design and construction aspects of buildings with a cityscape in the background.

Roestenburg spent most of his life in Europe, but was brought to New Zealand by the Catholic Church in the early 1950s to produce stained glass windows, murals, and sculptures for churches throughout the country. This is the only non-ecclesiastical public artwork of Rostenburg's identified thus far.

The Doug Angus designed building was given an Enduring Architecture award in the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects' 2010 Waikato/Bay of Plenty Architecture Awards.

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