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Monday 8 January 2024

Monday Murals - Everything Melville

Happy New Year to all of you and welcome back to Monday Murals.

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  
The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.
Thanks Sami 


A couple of months ago I went to a shopping centre not too far from work and came across these very colourful murals at the Civic Square library just behind it -in the suburb of Booragoon in the City of Melville.
Entitled "Everything Melville", this mural was painted by Mel McVee (Melski) in 2017.








On the bridge connecting the Civic Centre to Garden City Shopping Centre, a low wall of murals framed the bridge. This mural was designed and painted in 2020 by the Year 8 to Year 10 art students from Applecross Senior High School.








Near the library a sculpture of an owl - "The Getting of Wisdom", by Len Zuks.


The getting of wisdom - by Len Zuks

In the coming weeks I'll be showing you another mural by Melski that I found during our camping holiday and very similar owl sculpture that I saw when we visited the mining town of Boddington - in fact a town full of quirky and beautiful sculptures.
Plus more sculptures from the sculpture trail in the town of Byford, when we drove by on the way home.
It was a fun holiday for sure!

42 comments:

  1. ...Sami, it good to have you back, I hope that you had a wonderful time. The colors and details are wonderful. Thanks for hosting.

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    1. Thanks Tom. Yes, we had a nice time, always great to change scenery even for just a few days.

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  2. Thank you for the colorful hard and for including the owl sculpture. We will look forward to seeing the other one next time, Sami. Wishing you a very pleasant year ahead. Aloha!

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    1. Thank you Cloudia. The next owl will come once I write up about our holiday.

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  3. Happy New Year and welcome back to the art world of your blogger friends. I appreciate your keeping this going in the new year. Nice murals!
    best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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    1. It's a pleasure Mae, lovely to "meet up" with like minded bloggers.

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  4. These cheerful, colorful walls are an encouragement to visit this library and work in. I wish you a new year as colorful as these walls (kwarkito)

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  5. Love those large illustrations on the Melville mural.

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  6. These murals look like reading comics here

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    1. They do look like comic books. Thanks Roentare

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  7. Love the colorful murals, beautiful work. The owl sculpture is great too.
    Take care, have a great week!

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    1. Thanks Eileen. Sorry your comment went to spam.

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  8. Happy New Year Wishes.
    Lovely to see these colourful murals and I did like the owl sculpture.

    Have a good new week.

    All the best Jan
    https://thelowcarbdiabetic.blogspot.com/

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  9. I saw murals of a similar style a couple of days ago but offhand I can't remember where. Nice work by the children too. Everyone loves things owl related.

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  10. Sou fã de arte mural.
    Livre.
    Boa semana

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  11. Great work by the students/artists! And, oh. I´m still at my owl-book!

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  12. Welcome Back, Amazing works. Great clicks.
    Have a nice week ahead. Greetings

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  13. Happy New Year Sami I love these murals There are whole stories on these buildings

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    1. Thanks Marja, plenty to discover there for sure.

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  14. Dear Sami, I'm glad you had a fun holiday and also that you showed us such beautiful mural finds. This library looks extremely inviting just because of the painting. And I also really like the bridge painting and the owl sculpture.
    Today I am sending you a painted train carriage with an extension.
    I wish you and everyone you love (humans and animals) a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year 🍄🍀!
    All the best, Traude
    https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2024/01/rostrosen-weihnachten-2023-tiergarten.html

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  15. Those are very colourfull, so sweet to look at.

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  16. A lovely and expansive mural on the building but I really love the simplicity and charm of the wall!

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    1. Thank you Jeanie. Two very different styles, I also think the one at the library is a little too full.

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  17. I like the style of these murals and really like that owl, Sami.

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  18. What a great mural for a Library. Lots of eye candy here.

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  19. Incredible murals! I like the owl too.

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