Monday Mural - Milabirra (Woman kind)

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.

Titled Milabirra, this mural was painted for the 2018 Darwin Street Art Festival, by  Melbourne based artist George Rose, and can be found at West Lane in Darwin's city centre.

George Rose is one of Australia’s leading street artists, and she has recently won the 2020 Resene Total Colour Visual Art award, and in 2019 she was awarded the ‘Best Mural’ for the 2019 Street Art Australia Prize.

"Milabirra" - means Woman kind in Larrakia and is a powerful word that attracts good feminine energy. ⁣For this particular wall I really wanted to celebrate the diversity of language spoken by traditional owners of Australia, (Up to 363 languages belonging to an estimated 28 language families and isolates) and pay my respect to the Larrakia Nation. I think language can be such an important connection to identity, culture and history and I think it’s important to make visible the language we have so as not to loose that connection. The wall also features Blue Lotus and Sturt’s Desert Rose, from the Northern Territory.⁣

                        

The mural in the tall building is "Sistergirl" that I posted in October 2021

I was excited to come across 2 murals being painted this week - one in my local shopping centre and the other - a paint by numbers mural by Imogen Palmer (same artist from last week's mural) near Carousel shopping, 10 min drive from me. Sadly I was too well dressed to grab some brushes and paint and participate in the paint by numbers one ... 

I'll keep an eye on them and post about them when finished.

Monday Mural - Fauna and Flora in Attadale

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 mural from Perth this time - sorry for the photo overload, but it is a very, very long mural with so many beautiful subjects...

This mural was painted in September 2021 by West Australian artist Imogen Palmer, in the triangular shaped Davis Lawlor Park in the riverside suburb of Attadale (corner Lawlor and Davia Road).

The community was asked to help the artist paint the background of the mural in a paint-by-numbers style, and Imogen added the details of local fauna and flora.

Part of the huge mural

Dolphins

Pelican

Black Swan

Wagtail

Bat and Brushtail Possums

Kookaburras

Cockatoo & Banksia seed pod

Banksia flower

Banksia flower

Black cockatoo

Magpie

Signatures of the community helpers

Signs - I love this place

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A sign I saw ages ago in a food van, which I thought was quite funny.

Monday Mural - Tribute to Vincent Lingiari

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.

This is one of the 12 murals painted for the 2021 Darwin Street Art Festival, in August last year, by local artist Jesse Bell, and can be found in a vacant block of land on the corner of Bennett and Cavenagh Streets in Darwin's Central Business District. 

"This mural is a very special memorial piece for the late, great Vincent Lingiari. Vincent Lingiari was a Gurindji man from Central Western NT working and living at Wave Hill Station. In the 1960's Wave Hill became a flash point for Aboriginal Rights with workers demanding improved  pay and working conditions as well as the repatriation of some of their traditional lands. Vincent was elected to become the leader of the workers, and took the fight to Canberra and gained national attention for the movement. After 8 years of striking the fight at Wave Hill reshaped the conversation around Aboriginal land rights and ultimately culminated in land being handed back to the Gurindji people and the symbolic gesture of Gough Whitlam (Australian Prime Minister from 1972/1975) pouring sand into Vincent Lingiari's hands.   Later, Australian musician Paul Kelly wrote the hit song "From Little Things Big Things Grow" which tells the story of Vincent Lingiari's fight at Wave Hill, a song that helped immortalise the story in the public eye". 

Wave Hill Walk Off with the Gurindji workers sitting and striking 

The symbolic finale of the fight with Gough pouring sand into Vincent's hands 

 

Signs - Say Cheese :)

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Hope you love cheese as much as I do :)

This "Denmark" is in Western Australia, not in Europe. 

One of our favourite holiday spots, the pretty coastal town of Denmark is about a 4 hour drive south of Perth.