Arts Walk Murals
Railway Station Car Park
In January 2017 we received a grant from the Wellington Community Trust for the creation of a mural to be a feature wall of the Arts Walk. The mural was completed by the Paekakariki School children under the guidance of local artist Rachel Benefield.
It was decided that the mural would portray things of significance to local iwi. This resulted in the children doing research on the selected names, including a visit to our Museum, then developing their ideas.
.Work commenced on the 1st stage of the mural in April and carried on through to September with the children building on their ideas and creating the art works.
The mural was opened in December 2017 with a ceremony held at the Station Car Park followed by morning tea at the School Hall. Members of the school Kapa Haka Group were in attendance along with the Paekakariki Community at large. Our Patron Sir Jon Trimmer and 2 whanau from local iwi Ngati Haumia unveiled the mural.
Pearl & Flo Walkway
From Sunday 12 December 2021 a colourful especially-commissioned 15 metre mural will run the full length of Pearl and Florrie’s Way down to the beach at Paekākāriki.
The walkway is named in honour of identical twins, Pearl Mills and Florrie Ward, and provides beach access from the corner of Beach Road.
Just before their 80th birthday, the twins were out for a Sunday stroll when they were attacked by a bull.
The story reached a wider audience in 2003 when Kāpiti Coast animator Phill Simmonds completed his first hand-drawn animated short film Pearl, Florrie and the Bull in which Pearl and Florrie tell the story of their near-death encounter with an angry bull.
