The Timaru Herald21 Apr 2022Maddison Gourlay
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Aigantighe Art Gallery staff member Diana Peneamene, left, and CPlay Playground Upgrade Project committee member Roselyn Fauth with some of the artwork for the mural at the new playground.
The public are being invited to show off their artistic skills in a bid to remember Caroline Bay’s old playground in the rebuilt version.
Community group CPlay Playground Upgrade Project is the committee behind the ambitious project to build a $2.2 million playground at the Bay, with $90,000 left to raise.
The Aigantighe Art Gallery has partnered with the committee, providing art packs, which include a tile, to be used as part of a mural which will go in the lighthouse featured in the new playground.
The packs meant everyone was on a level playing field in terms of what they used to decorate the tile, Aigantighe Art Gallery curator Cara Fitzgerald said.
By yesterday 120 packs had been given away, with the gallery working to put together more.
‘‘It’s a nice legacy for kids to make,’’ Fitzgerald said.
CPlay Playground Upgrade Project committee member Roselyn Fauth, who is also a member of the Friends of the Aigantighe Art Gallery, said the tile mural will be put into the lighthouse planned for the new playground.
With a lot of white walls inside the structure, Fauth said in an effort to brighten it up, and include the community even more in the project, it was decided a mural made of memories of the Caroline Bay playground would be a great way to bring past and future generations into the new one.
‘‘The final mural will be all the artworks photographed in high resolution and printed onto an aluminium board to go into the lighthouse,’’ she said.