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Rosemary Penwarden-Leading By Example
Rosemary Penwarden is a long time climate activist and a tireless advocate for our environment and future generations. In recent months this brave mother and grandmother has been in the news all over the world for two protest actions highlighting … Continue reading
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Tagged activist, climate, dunedin, extinctionrebellion, oilfreeotago, passenger, penwarden, rail, restore, restorepassengerrail, rosemarypenwarden
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A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER (COLLECTION ONE)
A Change in the Weather’ is a cartoon strip about climate change issues produced by myself and Abe Hunter. The first seven strips were produced by artist/tattooist/cartoonist. Veronica Brett but these are not shown here. The strip is published every … Continue reading
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Tagged achangeintheweather, artist, climatechange, cruiseships, dairy, dairyfarming, dunedin, fonterra, kiwi, kiwicartoon, kiwicartoonist, mahalski, mining, penguin, penguincartoon, pollution, zealand
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Poster Man
Dunedin and other New Zealand band posters and the stories of the gigs they promoted by artist, Bruce Mahalski. Continue reading
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Tagged dunedin, dunedinsound, music, newzealand, nzmusic, poster, posters
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Dunedin Paintings (2017 – )
A series of paintings and indoor mini-murals I’ve completed since my return to Dunedin in 2017. One or two of them are still for sale and the prices are below. Pleas email me via – http://www.mahalski.com – if you’re interested. … Continue reading
Dunedin Murals
Since I moved back to Dunedin in 2017 I’ve painted quite a few small wall paintings around the city. I thought I might try to put a photo of each of them up here on my blog in the order I did them. I’m only including ones I’ve done under my own name (and not my alter-ego) and which are outside and not on interior walls. I’m also not including the ones I’ve painted outside Dunedin since I moved back. Continue reading
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Tagged animals, Art, dunedin, dunedinartist, mahalski, Mural, Murals, street, streetart
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Escape from the Animal Attic
The Animal Attic is an upstairs space gallery space at the Otago Museum. It not only sheds light on taxonomy and evolution, but on Victorian-era architecture and ideas about how museums should be presented to the public. From Falkland wolves to … Continue reading
Posted in Art Teaching, Exhibitions, Illustration, Uncategorized
Tagged animalattic, Art, dunedin, dunedinart, dunedinmuseum, exhibtion, otagomuseum
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What’s my Name? Tagging Culture and Law Enforcement in Wellington, New Zealand (2016)
The old male bear reared up on its hind legs and sank its claws deep into the pine tree. Then he raked them sharply down the trunk with a loud splintering noise. Next he sat on his haunches and sniffed … Continue reading
Posted in Art Teaching, Murals, Politics Art, Street Art, tagging
Tagged Art, history, mahalski, Murals, New Zealand, Politics, postgrafitti, streetart, tagging, wellington
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LOST IN PARADISE – Sheep Photos – The Back-story
‘LOST IN PARADISE’ – is an exhibition featuring the work of Bruce Mahalski, Kevin Dunkley and Miranda Woolett at the Exhibitions Gallery on the corner of Featherston and Brandon Streets in Wellington. The exhibition runs between the 20th of August … Continue reading
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Graffiti to Street Art – A Short History
There seems to be a strong impulse in human beings to leave their mark. To tell the world you were here. Unlike other animals we know we’re going to die and leaving some sort of physical mark behind is one … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, evolution, graf, graffiti, history, Murals, street, tagging
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Poster Boy
Poster Boy I was down the alley at the back of the Robbie Burns putting up a spread of posters for a band called ‘The Poodles’ when the police car pulled up beside me. I tried to ignore it and … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, dunedin, illegal, mahalski, newzealand, posters
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