Bay Harbour: September 14, 2022
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<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Wednesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
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STREET ART: Mark Catley with paste ups on Madras St. Right – a Batman and Yoda paste up by Catley, and a Catley paste up on Colombo St.<br />
PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
Paste ups a platform for pop culture<br />
• By Geoff Sloan<br />
ARTISTS ARE finding new<br />
ways to express themselves,<br />
increasingly taking to the streets<br />
with rolls of paper and buckets<br />
of glue.<br />
“Paste up” art is fast gaining<br />
popularity as Ewoks,<br />
stormtroopers and even<br />
David Bowie pop up on the<br />
walls of derelict buildings in<br />
Christchurch. The city is well<br />
known for its street art scene, but<br />
it’s normally the big murals that<br />
get the attention.<br />
However, a growing number<br />
of artists are keeping busy<br />
creating smaller, and often more<br />
thoughtful and intricate paste<br />
up art works.<br />
Mark Catley uses his love of<br />
pop culture to inspire his art.<br />
“I love all the street art out<br />
there, but a lot of it, it’s not for<br />
me. So I just thought, what do I<br />
want to see on the wall? And I<br />
thought, well, how about a lifesize<br />
stormtrooper.”<br />
He says paste ups are one of<br />
urban art’s most enduring forms,<br />
offering social commentary in<br />
the form of analogue memes,<br />
giant toys or collaged surrealism.<br />
A central city bollard has been<br />
transformed into an installation<br />
platform for paste up art, thanks<br />
to support from Phantom Billstickers<br />
and the city council’s<br />
Enliven Places Project Fund.<br />
Catley is among the artists<br />
invited to exhibit and wants suggestions<br />
from the public about<br />
what they’d like to see.<br />
He is calling for pictures of<br />
people’s old toys and can be<br />
contacted at markcatleydesign@<br />
gmail.com<br />
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