A NEW mural in Wodonga will flag an important environmental message.
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Sustainable Activity Centre has teamed with two artists on a project to create an artwork featuring threatened species of fauna and flora on the Border.
A crowdfunding campaign is seeking $2000 for materials to cover the 7-metre-long wall at Gateway Village.
The artwork will be painted by Border artists Tracie MacVean and Banana Joe.
A full-time artist at GIGS Artists Studios in Wodonga, MacVean does contemporary oil paintings and specialises in portraiture.
She said the mural project combined her twin passions for art and the environment.
“I love working on large-scale murals,” MacVean said.
“It’s especially important because I’m doing something for the environment at the same time.”
Banana Joe is an emerging artist with an illustration and design background.
Both artists, who studied fine arts at TAFE NSW Riverina – Albury campus, previously collaborated on the Macauley Street murals in Albury.
The sustainability mural will feature the regent honeyeater, bush stone-curlew, crimson spider orchid, southern pygmy perch and smooth darling pea.
MacVean said the goal was to raise awareness of these threatened species local to our environment.
She said the mural would allow people to get familiar with the species and identify them in their own backyard.
“We were trying to think of the best way to get some community involvement and do something we were all passionate about,” she said.
Sustainable Activity Centre director Claire Greenhaigh said the mural would create an inspiring and vibrant space in which the community could come together and develop further sustainable activities.
“It’s a space to actively connect with like-minded sustainable locals and organisations,” she said.
“And if you are a not-for-profit eco-organisation, all of this if here for you to use for free; make a difference without the cost.”
It is hoped the project could start by January depending on fundraising.
To contribute to the crowdfunding campaign visit www.gofundme.com/muralforsustainability
