EYECATCHING: The Beauty Empowerment mural takes inspiration from fashion and graffiti.
AN unassuming wall in the heart of Mount Gambier central business district will soon showcase a strong and vivid message of female empowerment.
Limestone Coast artist Aileen Costales-Clarke is transforming a Ripley Arcade wall into a new mural titled Beauty Empowerment, taking inspiration from fashion and city graffiti to deliver an eye-catching artwork.
Mount Gambier City Council has backed the project with $8500 from its 2020/21 Creative Arts Fund, which supports projects contributing positively to the city’s art and culture.
A former fashion designer, Ms Costales-Clarke has grown into her craft after previously illustrating as a side hobby, having since completed a mural at the Mount Gambier Marketplace.
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Commerce Arcade Mural – Creative Arts Fund
The public art landscape within Mount Gambier continues to expand as artist Scott Coleman, otherwise known as KAB101, transforms the blank 20 metre space in Commerce Arcade into a mural as part of the City of Mount Gambier Creative Arts Fund program.
KAB101 began his artistic career as a teenager in the 1980s working with the Riddoch Art Gallery on street art projects to activate laneways in Mount Gambier, including a series of murals at Odeon Plaza and the laneway between Commercial Street and Caldwell Street.
“One of Council’s aims for the Creative Arts Fund is to facilitate a city brought to life with public art, so to have KAB101 return to Mount Gambier to create one of his signature murals is very exciting,” City of Mount Gambier Arts, Culture and Development Officer Serena Wong said.