The iconic VAANA Peace Mural on the corner of Ponsonby and Karangahape Roads will be back up for all to see next week.

“I want to reassure Aucklanders that the VAANA Peace Mural has not been permanently removed,” Mayor Phil Goff says.

Riemke Ensing interviews her friend the artist Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett QSM. The conversation takes in Margaret’s early life and her discovery of painting, her experiences studying at Elam, attending art schools in Paris, the ideas that inform her work and her role as a founding member of VAANA (Visual Artists Against Nuclear Arms) of which she is still greatly involved.

In the heady days of anti-nuclear protests, artist Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett cut up her children's bedsheets to make protest banners emblazoned with the words "no nuclear ships" and hung them from boat masts.

The unifying question of the 2017 show ‘What Will We Leave Them?’ concerns our ecological fate, with the works presenting states of grace and failure in the individual and society.

“Peter’s human-centred architecture reflected his profound love of humankind, generosity of spirit and wild sense of humour.“

Tony Watkins

Retired senior lecturer, School of Architecture

A wall of murals lines the back of the Mobil gas station on the corner of Karangahape and Ponsonby Rds - 20 broken and bruised panels with a single voice: No nukes!

It's a message Auckland artist Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett says has become as faded as the paintings she and seven other artists put up in 1985. That's why the group plans to restore their work

By Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett November 2018