Traditional Māori design is at the heart of new road art installed as part of the Whanganui town centre regeneration project.
The traditional patterns and motifs feature in the new streetscape being installed on Drews Ave, with the road mural and other elements of the transformation ready to be unveiled at a street party on Friday evening.
Local artists Cecelia Kumeroa and Jodi Clark worked with Whanganui District Council's Town Centre Regeneration team on the artwork.
Town Centre project manager Ellen Young says the road art makes a dramatic statement, marking out the area as "somewhere special".