I value community art because it makes art accessible to all. I’m happy to dismantle the gallery walls and take it to the people! Not only does it result in a tangible outcome, it’s benefits are many and varied, often unquantifiable but very real.
Maslin Beach Stobie Poles
This project began with numerous meetings with Kaurna elder, Georgina Williams and emerging leader, Clem Newchurch to discuss images for the poles that reflected the local indigenous storyline of Tjilbruke and also showed the local flora and fauna. Local school children drew the designs at school and community members painted the poles.
McLaren Vale toilet block
The McLaren Vale Business and Tourism association received funding from the City of Onkaparinga through an arts grant to beautify the brown brick wall of the toilet block on the main street. After preparing the wall and drawing the image, I worked with community members, supervising as they painted the whole wall. The image was sourced from a photo I took of a stand of Eucalyptus trees along a local road.
Oval painting
The City of Tea Tree Gully awarded me the grant to paint on the grassed oval in front of the Council chambers and library. It was an ephemeral artwork using water soluble paint.
