Main Street Activation
Seventh Street Murals
The 2020 Murals Project was commissioned with support from the Rotary combined clubs of Murray Bridge and Mobilong as part of Council’s Bridge Street Activation program that was initiated to enliven the local environment and celebrate community pride.
Mike Makatron’s painting Flower Dreaming on the Murray Bridge Florist wall, overlooking the Bank SA carpark completed 26th February 2020, refers to the theme of Murray Bridge as a centre of food production and the importance of protecting our bee populations for the health of Murray Bridge as a food bowl. The scene is busy with bees pollinating native flowers that float around a young woman dreamily lying in a flied. The work also speaks of human interaction with nature, cultural diversity and youthfulness, with a rural feel that gestures toward our lush, green, open spaces
Mike Maka is a Melbourne-based artist who has travelled and created work around the world.
Morris Green’s work By the River on the Murray Nankivell building completed 24th April 2020, draws on the theme of our natural environment, and pays tribute to its majestic Murray River and the local Blue Wren. Painted with hyper-real detail, this vast landscape with its glistening waters and vivid fauna, transports us straight to the river bank, the home of many culturally significant bird species.
Morris Green is and Adelaide based mural and tattoo artist well known for his hyper-real designs.
Shane Cook and Harley Hall’s symbolic mural Ngarrindjeri Ngatji (Spirit Birds) on the Ray White building completed 4th May 2020, alludes to the theme of the region being home to many cultures. The pictured birds that represent different Ngarrindjeri totems, include: Wuldi (eagle), Nori (pelican) and Kungari (black swan). The artists see these as symbolic of people from different cultural groups: “We are all human and equal, but we also have our own characteristics that make us special and different in our own ways.”
Harley, a local Ngarrindjeri man and youth worker, developed his emerging street art practice through a mentorship with experienced street artist Shane, an Adelaide-based Wulli Wulli and Guwa descendant from Queensland.