Monday Murals - Quokkas - 3D Big trash animals

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

On Monday 23rd February I had met up with Iris in Fremantle to go and photograph murals.

I knew from social media that a Portuguese artist - Bordalo II, had been painting a mural in Fremantle in the last few days of the previous week, so I hoped to be able to catch him still painting. 

The mural was finished, still fenced in, but we found the artist, Artur Bordalo and had a quick chat to him and learned that this was his first artwork in Australia and that he will be coming back towards the end of the year to create another mural for the Swan Valley Art trail. 

Bordalo's grandfather named Artur Real Bordalo (1925–2017) was a well-known landscape artist in Portugal.

Another one of his 3D Big trash animals, using plastics and other discarded materials to highlight environmental pollution, can be seen at The Piazza Fremantle (South Terrace). This time a mom and baby quokka - the little marsupials native to Western Australia, mainly seen in Rottnest Island.

The Piazza was looking quite unloved, and is now going through a revival, with further artworks being painted later in the year in a mural festival to take place in November.

The start of the mural (photo from the Fremantle website)

And to show how lovable they are, here are a few pictures of the little quokkas taken at the small Rottnest Island , 19km from Perth.