Mural Masterpieces - Woburn Road, Lower Hutt

Location:
60 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt.

Team:
Timothy Cullinanne, Wendy Roberts, Robin Vaauli.

Accessible to public:
Yes.

Mural theme:
Community liaison.

Background to mural creation:
To portray a message to the community that no matter how talented you are it's the involvement in the community that counts.

The Hutt Valley Disabled Resources Trust now operates a comprehensive community liaison programme for people who have disabilities within the Hutt Valley. One of the activities that they run is arts integration. This takes the form of clients working with tutors in group or one to one work using a variety of mediums and working with individual client's goals, which have been identified in their respective individual development plans.

The mural that Tim is working on arose from his ability to identify his skill as an artist and his medium of spray paint. He worked one to one with his volunteer art tutor and together they came up with the idea that Tim use the medium he is comfortable with and combine this with another medium, using paint and brushes, and making a mural on the front wall of the Trust's Kennedy Good Centre.

One of the most positive aspects of the design that the Community Liaison division of the Trust was in support of and given its backing to the project was that Tim had included in his project an ability for many of the other clients of the centre to be involved in the mural by making one of the figure outlines that Time had create into their own images. Many clients relished the idea of this and as can be seen from the completed work, the faces and dress of these figures has an individual client focus.

They worked together to draft Tim's ideas and then the Trust applied for funding from the Hutt City Council's Creative Communities fund to start the mural project. The funding application was successful and the mural started to take shape.