Hundertwasser fever is hitting Whangarei and Whangarei Primary School has been infected.
An ambitious project to help educate young people about the significance of the Hundertwasser and Wairau Maori Art Centre has started at the school where the community will be invited to colour in a wall prepared with black outlines.
With the help of local artists Helen Whittaker and Clive Jackson from Hundertwasser Project Action Team, Whangarei Primary School students and art co-ordinator Anna Boaz have been putting a fresh lick of paint on the inside of the front wall along Bank St.
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"Being a bland wall it is invisible to many, and despite being on the main road to the CBD, some people have made comments like "I did not notice there was a school there," she said.