Wellington Dam Mural
After spending the day at the Golden Valley Tree Farm, John at the last minute decided to make a quick stop at the Wellington Dam Mural. I am so glad he did, this was a real treat to see.
Since it wasn’t a planned trip, I had little knowledge of what we were looking at, when I got home later, I of course looked it up.
A mural painted on the side of a dam wall is already a tourist magnet for a small coal-mining town in the South West of WA.
Key points:
The 8,000-square-metre mural is thought by organizers to be the largest in the world
The mural is one of several painted across the town of Collie
The artwork called ‘reflections’ is inspired by local stories and photos
Lead artist Guido Van Helten said the finishing touches were still being put on the 8,000-square-metre mural, which was officially unveiled on Friday.
The artwork is spread across a dam wall within the Wellington National Park, just west of Collie.
The team behind the mural’s commissioning and development believes it to be the world’s largest dam wall mural.
But Van Helten said while the mural had been described as the largest of its type that had not been his reason to paint it.
“I don’t want it to be just about that,” he said.”
[Size] doesn’t matter, it’s about how well it was executed.
“Impact ‘has to be seen to be believed’
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