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Kōrero: Public and street art

Smooth Inc street art, 1980s

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Smooth Inc street art, 1980s

Smooth Inc was an Auckland street-art crew of the 1980s. Inspired by hip hop graffiti coming out of New York, members treated buildings, walls and railway corridors like urban canvases, spraying pieces (large murals) on any blank space at hand. This piece on an Auckland construction site wall was created by Smooth Inc in the mid-1980s. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Creative New Zealand Collection (PA-Group-00064)

Reference: PA12-5859-09

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Kerryn Pollock, Public and street art – Street art, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/44478/smooth-inc-street-art-1980s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 12 March 2014.