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Tank Farm at Wynyard Quarter

Now the tanks have a colourful front line with a series of tanks painted in Resene paint by street artist Askew, inspired by the words of poet C.K Stead.

The tank farm at Wynyard Quarter has traditionally been a collection of monochrome tanks. Now the tanks have a colourful front line with a series of tanks painted in Resene paint by street artist Askew, inspired by the words of poet C.K Stead. With the unique nature of this project, let alone the combined sheer height and surface area of each tank, the tank transformation was remarkably quick.

Situated on reclaimed land, the area became home to bulk petro-chemical tank storage in the 1930s. Over the years changes to the way Auckland accessed fuel supplies made the bulk tank storage redundant freeing up the land to be transformed as part of the Wynyard Quarter project.

Askew’s work focuses on a small palette of colours on each tank applied with an interesting pattern effect that works well with the rough substrate of the tanks.

The tanks are finished in Resene Lumbersider tinted to Resene Glacier, Resene Blue Stone and Resene Blue Night for one palette, Resene Ironside Grey, Resene Grey Nickel and Resene Black for a second palette and Resene Milano Red, Resene Old Brick, Resene Persian Red and Resene Lime, with Resene White used across all three palettes. Resene Multishield+ was applied over the finished colour coats to help provide extra protection to these very exposed artworks.

From the Resene News – issue 2/2013

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