Ends lecturer’s week-long school-based intensive
An Avondale visual arts lecturer has helped staff members and students from a New Zealand primary school create an outdoor painting celebrating their Christian multiculturalism.
Teacher Joanne Andrews and Andy Collis framed by their mural.
The 4.8- by 2.4-metre mural by Andy Collis and the South Auckland Seventh-day Adventist School depicts a contemporary Jesus surrounded by children in a New Zealand native fauna and flora setting. The border borrows from traditional decorative symbolism to describe the creation story.
The unveiling came at the end of a week-long art intensive Andy, with wife Sally, delivered to the school’s 305 pupils and to its teachers.
Tags: Andy Collis, Faculty of Arts and Theology, School of Humanities and Creative Arts