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FOR KIDS, CRL EXPLAINED

Primary school artwork for Aotea Station

CRL is calling on all primary school-aged kids from across New Zealand to paint and draw images that will then be fired onto ceramic tiles and used to decorate our new CRL Aotea underground station.

If you’re between the ages of five and 11 and live in New Zealand we need your help!

CRL is looking for artwork from you showing where you’d want to go on a train once the new underground rail project is built. We have some awesome pictures already – from taking a journey to a neighbourhood dairy, to under the sea, to the moon, and even the Eiffel tower.

There are a few simple rules if you’d like take part in what will become New Zealand’s biggest ever art project:

You can use whatever medium you like – including paints, crayons, pencils or pastels
Artwork needs to be square shaped as it will be printed onto 10cm x 10cm tiles to be built into the station
Artwork needs to be original – this means no characters from your favourite tv shows, movies or books!

When you send your artwork, please also tell us your name, age and school you go to. Artwork can either be scanned or photographed and sent by email to art@cityraillink.govt.nz

We have received around 3,000 awesome pictures already and are hoping to collect thousands more.

We cannot tell you how much joy your pictures have brought us, and we can’t wait to see them up at Aotea Station, which will be built to last 100-years or more. This is where the tiles will be at the station

Thanks kids. We’re loving your work. And also thanks to the Ministry of Education, its schools, and Auckland Council’s Sustainable Schools programme.

This is where the tiles will be at the station: