An international artist is preparing to create a large mural with the help of audience participation, inside Stockland Shellharbour from Tuesday March 27.
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Saltwater Dreamtime artist Zac Bennett-Brook has worked with the shopping centre to concoct a colourful Indigenous style work which reflects the geography and people of the area. Across three days he will get the general public to lend a hand to paint the mural.
Blue tones will be used to symbolise the water, yellow and orange to represent sand and the land, with a traditional dot painting design over the top.
“The dot art style, [used is] based loosely off meeting places. It’s a travelling pattern, is what I call it, so different meeting places which are connected through different dot lines to symbolise a wider bigger community, travel and people coming together,” Bennett-Brook said.
Project manager of the mural Courtney Beaton said the aim is to connect the community through art as well as pay homage to the broader Shellharbour community and local indigenous community.