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Monday, 20 May 2024

Monday Murals - Red-tailed Black Cockatoos

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 

Another great mural from Margaret River's main street - Bussell Highway.

It was painted in July 2020 by WA-based artist Jack Brommel in collaboration with southwest artists Sandra Hill and Ian Mutch, depicting the Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos native to the South-West. 

Jack painted Marri tree branches (Corymbia calophylla) a species native to the South West, whose name derives from the local Noongar language, and the leaves and flowers complement the Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos and the Indigenous symbology painted by Sandra.

Sandra's design includes a red line on the corner of the building that runs from top to bottom symbolizing the blood line of family all the way back to the creation story of the Margaret River (place of Wooditch). The central brown circle depicts home country, Wadandi Boodjarra (Wadandi home country). The patterns in the middle circle are the traditional markings on our shields. The red circle symbolises old, ancient blood. The black line circle symbolises our community. The ochre dots on the outside symbolise the family clan groups.

Ian painted the Red-tailed black cockatoos, which can be found perched on marri branches feeding on nuts and flowers - an important food source for native bird species.





Remember this mural that I posted in February this year - another one with Red tailed black cockatoos, painted in the suburb of Subiaco (Perth) by Perth artist James Giddy?

35 comments:

  1. The bird paintings are wonderful! My murals today were found by my granddaughter, who sent them so I could share them.
    Have a great week, and thanks for hosting.
    best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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  2. Sami fauna and flora seems to be popular mural subjects in your area. Thanks for hosting, enjoy a wonderful week

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    1. It appears a lot of artists love painting fauna and flora. Thanks Tom

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  3. Love the birds, I thought were white...

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    1. There are some white cockatoos and pink and grey cockatoos too. Thanks Jackie

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  4. Such beautiful birds! This is a perfect subject for your part of the world.

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  5. A very nice mural, I do like the birds.
    Thanks for including the additional information.

    All the best Jan

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  6. Very nicely done and a picture tells a thousand words.

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  7. Lovely find!
    It's always nice to spot native fauna and flora on murals. It's a great way to get to know more about an area.
    Thank you for hosting, Sami. :)

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  8. Beautiful meaningful art you share this week. Thank you. It's so enjoyable coming here every week. Thank you aloha!

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  9. Amazing murals, Great post.
    Have a nice week ahead.

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    1. Thank you Rupam, enjoy your week too

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  10. Wonderful mural and thank you for the explanations, too!

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  11. Love the birds!
    Have a wonderful week!

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  12. Wonderful mural and I really appreciated your explanation of the details. Thanks for hosting Monday Murals!

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  13. Wonderful mural and one with meaning, Sami.

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  14. Dear Sami,
    I like the murals and the fact that several people worked together harmoniously - and I like the story behind the pictures!
    Unfortunately, I only saw the pretty black cockatoos in a sanctuary, not in the wild.
    All the best from Austria
    Traude
    https://rostrose.blogspot.com/2024/05/weltreise-2024-4-station-tasmanien-teil.html

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    1. I see them in the wild here in some of Perth suburbs. I had a couple of them on the electrical line above my house a couple of months ago, but I only had the mobile phone with me and they were too far for a good photo. Thanks Traude

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  15. Nice example of collaboration?

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    1. The question mark was not intentional.

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    2. A good collaboration for sure. Thanks Linda

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