Young artists wanted to paint street art piece

Street art on Spring Street. Photo/file

Young Tauranga artists are being sought to enter a piece of art, with the winning entry to be reproduced on a substation.

The Paradox Youth Street Art Competition's closing day was coming up on May 23.

Artists aged between 13 to 24 years could register and submit a piece of art no larger than A1.

Artists were free to create art with and on any material as long as the piece could be easily moved.

The competition would showcase young street artists works and the winner would transform one of Powerco's substations into a piece of art.

As part of the competition the pieces would be exhibited for the public to enjoy from May 29 until June 9 in the Te Ara o Mauao building at the Windermere Campus.

The exhibition would end with live music and food ahead of the live auction on June 9 at 7.30pm, which would see the money raised would go back to young creatives and the Edgecumbe fund.

The winning pieces as well as the works by well-known street artists from New Zealand and abroad would be on auction.

Deputy mayor Kelvin Clout said the competition would highlight the creativity and vision of young locals through street art.

A panel of well-known people in the art and street art scene would judge the submitted pieces.

Powerco's sponsorship and marketing coordinator Lorraine Harding said Powerco was excited to have youth involved in painting something on one of their substations.

"One of our substations has already been transformed into a piece of art by Wongi and we look forward to see another one being transformed by Tauranga's next superstar street artist," she said.

Young creatives only need to fill out a registration form and email it to anthony.campbell@tauranga.govt.nz or drop a paper copy off at Tauranga City Council's customer service centre at 91 Willow Street, Tauranga.

Once registered the young talents have until Tuesday, 23 May to finish their piece, take a picture of it and send it through to anthony.campbell@tauranga.govt.nz or post it on My Tauranga on Facebook.