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Dennis Lattimer

New Zealand mural artist (1946-2025) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dennis Lattimer
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Dennis Arthur Lattimer (1946 – 1 July 2025) was a New Zealand mural artist and illustrator. Active during the 1990s through to the mid-2010s, he completed more than 30 permanent outdoor murals, most notably the series that gave the Taranaki town of Ōpunake its reputation as "Mural Town of the West".[1]

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Life and career

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Lattimer trained as a commercial signwriter before turning to large-scale mural work in the late 1990s.[2]

In 1998, Lattimer completed Life Savers, a 35 × 8 m depiction of Opunake's surf-lifesaving culture painted on concrete block in the central business district.[2] Between 1998 and 2002, he produced the ten-panel Reflections of Ōpunake cycle, charting Ōpunake's history from 1900 to 2000.[3] His 2012 mural, Pharmacies Thru the Ages, portrays Ōpunake's three long-serving chemists and was unveiled on Tasman Street after 19 working days of painting.[1] In the same year, Lattimer was commissioned by the Paihia Phantom Placemakers to create a jigsaw-style mural narrating the history of Paihia, Bay of Islands.[4]

The Paihia project and the Ōpunake pharmacy mural jointly earned Lattimer the Resene Mural Masterpieces national award for best community mural in 2012.[5]

Lattimer died at his home in Coopers Beach, on 1 July 2025, at the age of 79.[6]

Selected murals

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Publications

  • Lattimer, Dennis (2003). A Day at the Races. Christchurch: RandNZ. ISBN 978-0-473-09792-9. A cartoon collection written and illustrated by Lattimer.[7]

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