Untitled - Armadale Central Shopping Centre
Artist: Adnate
Asset Type: Mural
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Location: Armadale Central Shopping Centre, Memorial Park, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Adnate is an artist who realises his portraits in spray paint. He has moved past his roots in street art, utilising the medium to carry his realist style into the fine art realm. Heavily influenced by the chiaroscuro of Renaissance painters like Caravaggio, Adnate embraces portraiture like the masters of the 17th Century.
Elevating graffiti art above the level of letter writing, Adnate’s subject matter and their subsequent status often belies the intent of his portraits. His works are often cropped by evocative slices of vibrant colour, channelling a presence of character, much like a still life uses its background as a setting for detail and showing fine brushstrokes. Adnate’s realism is highlighted by the use of what appears careless, but is frequently calculated, blocks of vibrant colour.
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Untitled - 1/86 Third Street
Artist: Creed Birch
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2018
Location: Express Laundromat, 1/86 Third Street, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description: Creed Birch is a multidisciplinary artist whose work features repeated patterns and carefully considered colour schemes sourced from his urban surroundings.
Inspired by his background in graffiti, interest in photography and history working in suburban construction, Creed sources colours and patterns through contemplation of his environment. Creed’s interest in shapes and colours of the urban landscape is documented in his photography and reinterpreted in his work.
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Untitled - 234 Jull Street
Artist: Sharyn Egan
Asset Type: Mural
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Location: Department of Fire and Emergency Services, 234 Jull Street, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Sharyn Egan is a Noongar woman who began creating art at the age of 37, which led to her enrolling in a Diploma of Fine Arts at the Claremont School of Art in Perth. She completed this course in 1998 and enrolled in the Associate Degree in Contemporary Aboriginal Art at Curtin University which she completed in 2000. In 2001 she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Arts) from Curtin University. She has also been awarded a Certificate IV in Training and Education in 2011.
The themes of Sharyn’s work are informed by the experiences of her life as a Noongar woman. Sharyn works in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture and woven forms using traditional and contemporary fibres. Her woven works include traditionally styled contemporary forms and baskets, as well as sculptural forms often based on flora and fauna that have totemic significance for the Noongar people.
Her works of oils, natural ochres, resins and acrylics on canvas as well as natural fibre woven sculptures are informed by her experience growing up at New Norcia and comments upon the associated trauma, emotions and a deep sense of loss and displacement experienced by Aboriginal people.
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Untitled - 188 Jull Street
Artist: Tahnee Kelland
Asset Type: Mural
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Location: Passageway at 188 Jull Street, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Tahnee Kelland is a full-time artist from Mandurah, Western Australia. She uses muted colours to create emotionally honest artworks that are expressed as murals, paintings, illustrations, business logos, tattoos and custom jacket designs.
Her whimsical style pulls in the viewer; giving glimpses of real emotional honesty, soulful femininity, fanciful patterns and a space for reflection.
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Untitled - 89 Jull Street
Artist: Andrew Frazer
Asset Type: Mural
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Location: Domino’s Pizza, 89 Jull Street, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Andrew Frazer is a multidisciplinary artist from Gelorup, Western Australia. Influenced by common shared stories that remind us of our humanity, Andrew’s art draws upon our inner child through subtle textures, whimsical characters and imaginative driven landscapes. From public murals, hand lettering, design and illustration, Andrew has been commissioned by various clients from around the world in commercial and private settings.
In extension to his own practice, Andrew is the Founder & Creative Director of Six Two Three Zero – an independent, Bunbury-based initiative that seeks to use street art as a catalyst for urban development and social change by bringing communities together in conversation and creative inspiration. It is responsible for commissioning over 30 large-scale murals in Bunbury’s CBD, with expansion into Armadale’s CBD 2017-2019.
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Untitled - 23 Prospect Road
Artist: Bradley Kickett
Asset Type: Mural
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Location: Armadale Police Station, 23 Prospect Road, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Bradley Kickett is a local Noongar artist. He was born in Northam and grew up in Perth. He descended from the Kickett clan in York, Western Australia. He began painting in 2007.
Bradley’s style of art is abstract with paintings depicted from an aerial view and illustrated in a fluid style that he has developed over the last three years.
Influenced by experiencing Noongar country, from the oceans to the rivers and seeing the wildflowers and the land from the air and showing the flow and the shapes of the earth. These images are all interwoven with the history and the stories that are shared and passed down to him from his family and elders.
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Untitled - 172 Jull Street
Artist: Lisa King
Asset Type: Mural
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Location: Cash Converters, 172 Jull Street, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Lisa King is an artist and illustrator dedicated to figurative portraiture and fashion illustration. Her rich and stylish works cross over various mediums including oil, acrylic, aerosol and computer generated imagery, with a primary pull towards large scale mural work being influenced by indie and pop culture.
Her work has been labelled ‘colourfully angelic yet seemingly dark’. She has been recognised locally and internationally as a fast emerging painter and street artist.
Her current focus lies in large scale mural production and a year-long studio calendar, with an emphasis on oil painting and traditional drawing skills.
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Untitled - 195 Jull Street
Artist: Rone
Asset Type: Mural
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Location: Westpac, 195 Jull Street, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Finding the friction point between beauty and decay is a thread that runs through much of Rone’s work. As a street artist best known for his haunting, stylised images of women’s faces, he understands better than most that beauty can be fleeting. Seeing his artworks gradually worn away by natural and human elements has taught him to appreciate the unexpected beauty of an image as it begins to blend back into its more prosaic surroundings.
Rone has gone from spearheading Melbourne’s fledgling street art movement in the early 2000s, as a member of the Everfresh crew, to being a celebrated fixture on the international street art scene. An inveterate traveller, his distinctive female muses have followed him around the world, and can be found – in various states of decay – peering out from beneath overpasses and emblazoned on walls everywhere from New York to New Zealand and many places in between.
These days, Rone’s work is found as often in galleries as it is on the streets. His work has been acquisitioned by the National Gallery of Australia, commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria to work with Jean Paul Gaultier and shown by galleries including Stolen Space in London, Urban Nation in Berlin and Allouche Gallery in New York.
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link
Artist: Si Hummerston
Asset Type: Sculpture
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Location: Intersection of Albany Highway and South West Highway, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Si Hummerston’s Link represents the constant movement and flow of people and traffic through Armadale’s major intersection and entry point. For many, this location represents heading down south on holidays or visiting Perth for supplies, acting as an important link between the country and city.
The two intersecting loops are representative of Armadale’s dual identity – one representing the rural landscape and the other the urban environment – reinforced through the playful fine grain details. Observing the artwork from close proximity reveals new and surprising details – a farm truck full of local goods, a faithful dog rides in the ute, a vintage car passes holiday makers towing a caravan, and the ubiquitous kangaroo hops into view.
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Owen Davies - Sculpture
Artist: Owen Davies
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 1994
Location: Corner of Jull Street and Third Road, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Instigated by the Armadale Chamber of Commerce, this sculpture is a tribute to the history and heritage of the area. The 1890s swagman represents the pioneers and tradespeople that contributed greatly to the growth of Armadale. The Y-shaped junction that he draws in the sand highlights the two highways and resembles the design of the Armadale Council crest. He sits next to the waterwheel signifying the importance of the creeks and dams in the area. The seats around the sculpture invite people to rest in a subtle tribute to the local brick and manufacturing industries.
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Memorial Park Sculpture
Artist: Greg White and Linton Reynolds
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2012
Location: Memorial Park, Armadale
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
These colourful ribbons complement the heritage listed Monument to those who served during WWI and those who lost their lives in WWII and Korea. They are designed to educate residents about the contribution that our community has made via military service. Originally unveiled on Remembrance Day 2012, these five ribbon bars represent medals that symbolise overseas service in conflicts and humanitarian efforts by Australia’s Armed Forces since Federation in 1901. Each ribbon bar contains text and images representative of the conflict or theatre that the bar represents.
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