A Place to Create, A Place to Share, A Place that Matters (2023)

Commissioned 3 part mural on Holden Lane, behind the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina NSW

After reading through the feedback from the Ballina flood recovery workshops and speaking to members of the Northern Rivers community as well as drawing on my own experiences, there were three main factors that stood out and were being repeated as important during these times of recovery, Safe Space, Community and Sharing. I used this to inform my design and worked with Ballina Shire Council and the Northern Rivers Community Gallery to finalise a concept and design. A colour scheme was chosen to represent the place and people of Ballina:

Orange monochrome - Representing the famous big prawn.

Blue monochrome - Representing where the sea and sky meet.

Orange and blue together - Representing where place, culture, arts and people meet.

With organic shapes, bold colours and three-dimensional text, the three murals that surround one of the sheds at the rear of Ignite Studios reads, Northern Rivers, Bundjalung Nation, a place to Create, a place to Share, a place that Matters.

Dulux Weathershield acrylic