Artist: David Gregson

Year of Work: 1995

Location: Subiaco Oval

Asset Type: Mural

Provenance: Subiaco

Decommissioned Status: 2018 - Good condition, however the grandstand is due for demolition in 2019.

Description: Footballers leap, sprint, dive and tackle their way across the wall; full of energy and life. The thirty metre long mural is painted directly onto a concrete wall in the stadium at Subiaco Oval, (currently known a Patterson's Stadium). The painting, by one of Western Australia’s most highly respected figurative painters, is a treasure of the Subiaco Public Art Collection, commissioned in partnership with the Western Australian Football Association.

David Gregson was a passionate propagator of the power of art to communicate and transform our everyday existences. Through his dynamic fifty-year painting career alongside a teaching career, his infectious love of life and colour inspired a raft of young artists.