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Indigenous artist starts next McNamara Street mural 4 August
Local artist Sandon Gibbs-O’Neill is the latest artist to create a mural in McNamara Street as part of Orange City Council’s FutureCity upgrade of the area.
Sandon Gibbs-O’Neill is a proud Nhunngabarra man who is inspired by the legacy of his Grandfather, Tex Skuthorpe, a highly respected Nhunggal man, artist, teacher and author.
Sandon’s Future City Public Art Project mural Community is a contemporary design that draws on aspects of traditional Aboriginal art. The mural has been created on the Canobolas Hotel garage in the McNamara Street carpark.
Sandon Gibbs-O’Neill – Orange, NSW
Orange artists will also be among the next round of artworks to be installed later this year.
Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said he’s looking forward to seeing what emerges as the artwork takes shape.
“Yanni Pounartzis is a Canberra-based artist who’s exhibited in Berlin and Sydney as well as created public artworks in Canberra, and it’s fantastic that a street in Orange will be the next backdrop for his work,” Cr Reg Kidd said. “People who follow his work closely say he has a style of painting that plays with perspective and colour.”