Jun 12, 2017 4 min read travel diaries

postcards from dunedin - street art edition

Chinese artist Dal East represents New Zealand’s extinct Haast Eagle and is reflective of his unique style which presents the frenetic shape of animals and people as if they have been constructed out of shards of metal.

Vogel Street Kitchen was a spectacular find. Housed in the warehouse district, this place was our breakfast place for two days running. The breakfast supplies we’d bought to enjoy over a lie in ended up coming home with us. It has a vintage-industrial feel that we both love, has great food and a great vibe. The perfect place to get enough caffeine running through our veins to fuel a morning of street art hunting.

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And not ever did I imagine that Dunedin would be the place I go in New Zealand to get my street art fix. With murals to rival those seen in the Shoreditch area of London (and some done by the same UK artist), I was in vintage-warehouse-industrial-grunge-street-art heaven. It’s all commissioned artworks arranged by local volunteers. Brilliant.

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empress of the penguins — Empress of the penguins by local artist Emma Francesca

This piece is a world first collaboration by Pixel Pancho and Phlegm and presents the successful mixing of their own unique style creating a surreal battle between Pixel Pancho’s robots and Phlegm’s sloth-like creatures.

Bezt (Etam Cru) is a street artist from Warsaw, Poland with an impressive body of darkly surreal work most of which has been created on a huge scale as demonstrated by this gigantic piece created in 2015.

Argentinian street artist Hyuro created this piece entitled “Unoccupied” depicting a suspended dress to reflect the vacant status of the historic building in the warehouse precinct on which it was created.

be free (i)
Be Free began making feminine and mischievous street art using found objects, stencils and aerosol art after moving to Melbourne and becoming fascinated by the artworks that were plastered and sprayed on its inner-city laneways.

be free (ii)
Be Free began making feminine and mischievous street art using found objects, stencils and aerosol art after moving to Melbourne and becoming fascinated by the artworks that were plastered and sprayed on its inner-city laneways.

be free (iii)
Be Free began making feminine and mischievous street art using found objects, stencils and aerosol art after moving to Melbourne and becoming fascinated by the artworks that were plastered and sprayed on its inner-city laneways.

be free (iv)
Be Free began making feminine and mischievous street art using found objects, stencils and aerosol art after moving to Melbourne and becoming fascinated by the artworks that were plastered and sprayed on its inner-city laneways.

Quick collaboration piece by Emmanual Jarus (Can) & Caratoes (Bel) titled “Chasing Waterfalls” completed in January 2017.

Chinese artist Dal East represents New Zealand’s extinct Haast Eagle and is reflective of his unique style which presents the frenetic shape of animals and people as if they have been constructed out of shards of metal.

Māori waka and a steam-punk like submarine (a reference to the incident where a Japanese submarine was supported in the Otago Harbour) emerge from a fish’s mouth in this distinctive piece by Phlegm which incorporates local history alongside his distinctly fantastical style.

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Postcards from more Dunedin adventures to come…

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