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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>October</strong> 2 <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
Local<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Now<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
of art recognised<br />
Art is one thing he recommends<br />
to people going through<br />
addictions but he says there are<br />
other ways.<br />
“It works for me, but what I<br />
generally do with my clientele<br />
is take them back to before they<br />
were on drugs and find out what<br />
their interests were between the<br />
ages of 10 and 15.<br />
“For me between the ages 10<br />
and 15, I loved sketching. Art<br />
and English Football were my<br />
passions and I often sketched<br />
English football players,” Mr Holt<br />
said.<br />
He often drew sketches of his<br />
favourite player, Leeds United<br />
goalkeeper David Harvey, as he<br />
had the same initials as Mr Holt.<br />
Hobbies that people had when<br />
they were younger can help fill<br />
the void left by drugs, he said.<br />
Mr Holt made his art<br />
hobby public when he started the<br />
Brockworth Art Gallery in 2012.<br />
The gallery is along the train<br />
tracks behind Brockworth Pl,<br />
Riccarton.<br />
Mr Holt never had an interest<br />
in street art until then.<br />
International street artist<br />
Banksy that inspired him to start<br />
the street art.<br />
“I watched Banksy’s film<br />
Exit Through the Giftshop and I<br />
became really interested in street<br />
art.<br />
“But I didn’t want to cross the<br />
police lines and get into trouble<br />
for illicit art,” Mr Holt said.<br />
He met Kenyan artist Jess De<br />
Boer who was living in the city at<br />
the time.<br />
“Jess and I got permission to<br />
paint the wall of Margaret Stoddart<br />
[Retirement Village] but she<br />
had to go back to Kenya immediately<br />
after we got permission.<br />
“She gave me all the paint that<br />
she had gathered and because<br />
I lived in [Riccarton], I started<br />
painting in 2012 with about<br />
five or six paintings,” Mr Holt<br />
said.<br />
When more vines on the walls<br />
along the railway walkway were<br />
removed, he had more canvas to<br />
paint on.<br />
Mr Holt said his street art has a<br />
point of difference.<br />
“I paint with paintbrushes, not<br />
spray.<br />
“My second point of difference<br />
is I wanted to set up street art<br />
in the layout of an art gallery so<br />
that for people that walk through<br />
there it’s like an art gallery,” he<br />
said.<br />
Mr Holt felt a lot of pride in<br />
looking at his work but says they<br />
are not there to show off his<br />
talents.<br />
“It’s simply there to colour up<br />
the morning, evenings or days of<br />
whoever that’s walking there.<br />
“It’s just there to distract people<br />
from the mundane walk of life,”<br />
he said.<br />
Mr Holt doesn’t have any plans<br />
for any future public murals and<br />
likes the way it is. His last painting<br />
was in March.<br />
“I quite like having my own<br />
little spot and I like it that it’s<br />
tucked away and you kind of<br />
GALLERY: The<br />
Brockworth<br />
Art Gallery<br />
project began<br />
in 2012 and the<br />
last mural was<br />
completed in<br />
March<br />
have to look for it,” he said.<br />
But art will always remain a<br />
hobby for him at home.<br />
Mr Holt had also had some<br />
advice for people going through<br />
substance abuse.<br />
“Recovery can be achieved, two<br />
things that are key to a recovery<br />
is acceptance that you’ve got a<br />
problem and personal honesty<br />
around everything that you do<br />
in life.<br />
“Hang in there, it does get<br />
better. Sometimes people find it<br />
really hard to break a habit, but<br />
once you break the habit it gets<br />
better,” Mr Holt said.<br />
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