A Salvador Dali mural which first caught the eye of Whangārei residents on the corner of Dent St and James St has a new home.
The mural has moved to it's new location in Butter Factory Lane.
Whangārei District Council landscape architect Tracey Moore said she had driven past the mural, on a roller door of a building earmarked for demolition, and thought it needed to be saved.
The mural was on a building on a site owned by Auckland developers The Neil Group. The building has since been demolished and replaced by a pay and display car park.
Moore contacted the developers, who said the council could have it.
The roller door has been framed and installed on the Butter Factory Lane side of the Harvey Furnishing building on Rathbone St.
Moore said it "seemed like a good site" with a lot of foot traffic.
"I'm hoping to increase public art that we get around the city."
She said it was cool to see local businesses starting to do their own stuff, such as a mural on the side of MD Gallery on Rust Ave.
Whangārei artist Rodrigo Rozas said he was commissioned to do the original work about 18 months to two years ago.
He said as the original site was a gallery, he had the idea to do a Salvador Dali portrait.
The mural was crafted using spray paint, and the majority of the work was done in one afternoon.
Rozas was at the mural's new site last week to "freshen it up a little bit" and make it look sharper.
"Try to give it another two, three years of life."
Rozas said he was going to try to get the door himself to put somewhere around town.
When he went to the site, he was told the door was gone.
"Two days later I got a call from Tracey."
He said the mural made a real difference to it's new site.
"It's great, before it was just tagging, paint was bubbling up."
Moore arranged to have a Salvador Dali quote installed on the wall next the mural.