Traffic Sign Art
Delicia Sampero
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      • Conference Of the Birds - Wildflower
      • Conference of the Birds VIDEO 2013
      • Conference of the Birds -KAURI
      • Conference of the Birds 2014
      • Conference of the Birds VIDEO 2014
      • Conference of the Birds -MATARIKI MANU RERE
      • The Kauri Project / Group
      • Birdfigures
    • Playing the Game
    • Playing the Game - Part 2
    • Temporary
    • Metamorphosis
    • The Mirror Mama Project
    • I AM - Portrait installation
    • Muttermal ( Birthmark )
    • In the Shoes of Another
    • Thief of Dreams
    • A Well Written Body ( book )
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    • Threads of touch
    • Signs
    • Interface / Systemic
    • The Digital and I Project
    • In Transit
    • Reflective
    • Painted Signs
    • Urban kids
    • Pacific Paintings
    • Paint & movement
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       For 12 years I have been turning recycled traffic signs into paintings, installations, and multidisciplinary art projects.


       They are meditations on the impact digital technology has on relationships and on ways of knowing ourselves and the world.
       
      
​       From this starting point,
 I let each work take me on a different journey, not quite knowing where it will lead or what I may discover in the process.

    
       HeArtbeat is a selection of paintings from 2012- 2022, exploring questions around resilience and inspiration.

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What Is real ? Mixed media on traffic signs, 2700 x 2025 mm, Heterodox Us- Group Exhibition, Steel Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre, Pukekohe, Auckland, April -June 2022.
 Threads of Touch
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Another fine Balance, 2020, mixed media on arrow signs, 2250 x 1000 mm, Tennyson gallery, Napier
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In Orbit, 2020, mixed media on arrow signs, 2542 x 2542 mm
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Compass Rose, 2019, mixed media on recycled traffic signs, 1800mmx 1200mm
Go to EXHIBITIONS in the drop down menu and choose Threads of Touch for more information and pictures about this body of work.

More projects you will find on this website are:

Reflective, In Transit, The Digital and I Project, Interface...

Exhibitions of Paintings on Traffic -Signs 
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Temporary
An installation of 50 recycled temporary traffic signs displayed singularly and arranged in clusters. The signs are placed along the walkway , creating a link between the other artworks and drawing attention to natural features.

Temporary directs and invites the participants to contemplate the inherently temporary nature of human creation and natural life, throwing open questions around materiality and temporality, transient and lasting , in relation to our environment and us.
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Traffic to the Future


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdwCUWSWgk

2016 Research Project / Online Exhibition
A reflection of how transportation and telecommunication are changing lives in New Zealand.
Using art to stimulate engagement and discourse around those notions.

Featuring works by contemporary artists / performers living in New Zealand mixed with quotes from international writers and scholars.
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Conference of the Birds

2013 - 2018 The Conference of the Birds is a touring exhibition.
So far the journey of the birdpeople has taken them to exhibitions and events in different parts of Auckand (McCahon House, Te Uru / Lopdell House, the Nathan Homestead and the Botanical Gardens in Manurewa) as well as to Waiheke Island( Sculpture on the Gulf), Raglan(Manu Matariki) and the Hawkes Bay( Wildflower sculpture exhibition) ...
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Thank you to the sponsors ​3M, 
​INEX Metals and Waitakere Ranges Local Board !