Werribee Public Art Walking Tour: Recent Episodes
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Explore some of Werribee’s most iconic street art murals with Wyndham City’s self-guided trail and free audio tour!If you can't travel to Werribee, Victoria right now you can still go behind the scenes and listen to the artists talk about their work with these audio recordings.
Stop 8 in the Werribee Public Art Walking Tour is Mooroop Yarkeen (Spirit Dreaming) by Tommy Day / Jirri Jirri.
Commissioned by Wyndham City, this First Nations mural is one of the largest in Australia.
Stretching across the façade of Holiday Inn Werribee, the design incorporates the Wirribi Yaluk (Werribee River), sandhills and basalt plains, welcoming gum leaves, community coming together in unity, dreaming, and Bunjil’s flight.
Artist Tommy Day / Jirri Jirri represented by MAMAM, is a Gunditjmara, Yorta, Yorta and Wemba Wemba man and multi-disciplined artist based in Shepparton, Victoria.
Featured image taken by Matthew Slocum.
Stories and sounds from the Werribee River.
This is an audio experience featuring local people and appreciators of the river speaking about what the Werribee River means to them.
Best heard in the surrounds of the Werribee River.
Wyndham City Council commissioned artist Patrick Cronin to produce this soundscape.
Music, audio editing and sound design by Patrick Cronin, with additional materials by Sally Ford.
All interviews and fields recordings were recorded on or near the Werribee River.
Stop 5 in the Werribee Public Art Walking Tour is 'Does it have to be so...Queer' by David Lee Pereira. Featuring a fusion of local and international flora and fauna, this huge, 110m mural celebrates diversity and explores the fluidity of gender, sexuality and identity.
Stop 2in the Werribee Public Art Walking Tour is by DREZ. This work is located on the eastern façade of Wyndham Cultural Centre in Watton Street. Drawing on the optical art movement, this abstract work seems to draw you in and expand at the same time, with the transition of colours creating a sense of depth and movement.
Stop 6 in the Werribee Public Art Walking Tour features a public toilet block. You may ask, why would art feature on the most mundane of buildings? It was a newly built block; a fresh canvas begging to beautiful. Minna Leunig was the perfect artist to bring beauty to banality.
Stop 5 in the Werribee Public Art Walking Tour is by Makatron, ‘Maka’. Maka’s artwork is known for capturing a world in which the natural forces fight back against humanity, reclaiming the earth from the uncaring advance of civilisation.
Stop 2 in the Werribee Public Art Walking Tour is by Ghost Patrol. This work is located on Watton Street and incorporates steps leading up to the unknown. Is it a room, a place to store things or maybe a secret passage to an unknown world?
Stop 3 in the Werribee Public Art Walking Tour is by Tom Gerrard who is globally known for painting simplified characters, architecture and nature using a minimal colour palette. The characters and elements that make up his paintings have been inspired by people he has seen and places he has been.
Stop 4 in the Werribee Public Art Walking Tour includes murals from Megan Bonnici and Liz Hooker, who were involved in a project with Blender Studios in 2015 to develop artwork for Werribee’s laneways.
Stop 1 in the Werribee Public Art Walking Tour is by Ash Keating. This mural adorns the western facade of Wyndham Cultural Centre in Watton Street. Ash Keating is best known for his large-scale, paint-filled murals painted with fire extinguishers and this mural is no exception.