Numbat Mural
Image source Lyda Hayward
Artist: ROA
Asset Type: Mural, Decommissioned
Year of Work: 2011
Location: Henderson Street Mall
Provenance: City of Fremantle
Description: Commissioned by the City of Fremantle the mysterious Belgian artist ROA created the Numbat Mural in one night. It quickly became a beloved Fremantle icon.
ROA chose the numbat after time spent with Aboriginal Elders of the Pilbara learning about the wildlife. He chose the numbat because it was endangered and that people in the city so easily forget about the natural environment.
In 2022 the heritage limestone wall that held the mural was set to be demolished as part of Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s new hotel development. At time of writing (2025) the new development has yet to start but the building has been removed and the nearby carparking area has been expanded.
The Rainbow
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Artist: Marcus Canning
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2016
Location: Beach reserve adjacent to Canning Highway, Fremantle, WA, 6160.
Provenance: City of Fremantle
Description: Sometimes called ‘The Containbow’, Marcus Canning’s ‘Rainbow’ was installed between the bridges at Beach Reserve overlooking the Fremantle port in 2016. At nine-metres high and 19-metres long, and tipping the scales at 66 tonnes Rainbow is not your average public art piece.
The sculpture by prominent Perth artist Marcus Canning is constructed from nine recycled sea containers joined to form an arch.
Canning’s artwork now welcomes visitors to Fremantle whether they’re arriving by train, car or boat. It overlooks the Swan River as well as the container port from which it draws part of its inspiration as a universal symbol of hope and acknowledgement of Fremantle’s artistic as well as maritime heritage.
Ascalon
Image source St. George’s Cathedral
Artist: Marcus Canning, Christian de Vietri
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2011
Location: St George’s Cathedral, Cathedral Square Precinct, Perth, WA.
Provenance: City of Perth
Description: Ascalon seeks to create a space of contemplation, exhilaration, and inspiration. It distils the essence of St George mythology in a contemporary, abstracted rendition that is timeless in its relevance, evoking the greater archetypal truths that permeate from his story and how these truths pertain to the individual and to society, now and for centuries to come.
In Medieval Romance, ‘Ascalon’ is the name of the lance used by St George to slay the dragon. Here, the lance is rendered as a monumental tube that emits a single beam of light into the heavens at night. It is set into a large fragmented landscape of black epoxy coated steel plate. An abstracted representation of the slain body of the dragon, this highly detailed and complexly faceted terrain has a crack running along its central axis that emanates from the point where the lance has entered the petrified, fossilised, and fragmented form of the dragon.
At night, light shines up through the crack, illuminating the luminous white form suspended above it.
The third element to the work is a billowing white cloak form that wraps and warps in a single undulating plane around the lance. It is cast in white epoxy coated hybrid composite, and despite its large dimensions, holds an ethereal lightness alongside its elemental power.
The form is an abstraction of St George on his steed and also references the recurring cloak form that features in many depictions of St George across Western art history, usually operating as a field similar to a halo or angel’s wings. The form aims to evoke a sense of righteous power and victory over a force of darkness and oppression.
The form of Ascalon has been developed and modelled in a digital environment in collaboration with New York-based architect Eldad Lev, allowing for a seamless ‘press play’ transition to fabrication using the latest in 3D printing and digitally controlled sculpting machinery.
Perth-based structural engineering firm Capital House, who were behind the Kings Park Suspension Bridge, are the project managers of the Ascalon fabrication and site build, and they have, amongst other things, designed a customised dampening system to tune the form to the specific wind conditions of the site.
Spanda
Image source Jarrad Seng
Artist: Christian de Vietri, ShapeShift
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2016
Location: Geoffrey Bolton Avenue, Perth, WA.
Provenance: City of Perth
Description: Spanda is a 9 story-high sculpture made of carbon fiber located in Perth, Western Australia. It was commissioned for fabrication by the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority of Western Australia and installed at Elizabeth Quay in 2016.
Intended as an icon to uplift the city and its inhabitants, the idea of human identity being constituted of layers or sheaths was a starting point for the sculpture’s design. These layers represent the contours and constituents of the human experience, proceeding from gross to subtle as one moves from the periphery to the core. The exponential repetition of the arch form creates the impression of an infinite vibration, a pattern of self-similarity that is intended to trigger the viewer's inner experience of wholeness, the recognition of themselves as individual expressions of the universal, intimately interconnected, and one with their total environment.
The sculpture was designed to have a strong sense of presence without being imposing nor obscuring any building or vantage point. It is aligned with the site such that the curvature of the form contrasts with gridded square buildings behind it. The arch-like quality of the form is mysteriously functionless as it is neither an entrance nor an exit, but stands alone, declaring its own liminal space for the viewer to merge with. The structure was built by a team of expert digital fabricators and engineers who re-purposed carbon fibre manufacturing technology from the aerospace industry to enable a truly unique civil structure that would not have been possible in traditional materials.
The title of the work is a Sanskrit word meaning “divine cosmic vibration”. This term is used to describe how Consciousness generates and resorbs the manifest world by expanding and contracting in waves of its own expressive capacity. The sculpture is intended to be both a formal representation of this ‘spanda’ principle, and a tool, or means, to stimulate its experience.
“We praise that Śankara who is the source of the power of the wheel of energies by whose expansion (unmeśa) and contraction (nimeśa) the universe is absorbed and comes into being.” Kallaṭa, Spanda-kārikās (trans. Mark Dyczkowski)
Northam Grain Silos
Image source Instagram
Artist: Hense (Alex Brewer)
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: Northam grain silos, Northam, WA.
Provenance: Northam-Toodyay Road, Northam, WA
Description: FORM began the PUBLIC Silo Trail by painting the Northam CBH Group grain silos in March 2015.
It’s important to note that the Northam Silos are fully operational and no unauthorised access is allowed on this site. There is a one-way pullover place for cars and caravans and photos can be taken of the silos from there.
Northam Grain Silos
Image source Phlegm
Artist: Phlegm
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: Northam Grain Silos, Western Australia
Provenance: Northam-Toodyay Road, Northam, WA
Description: Phlegm created this mural with FORM, where he spent over two weeks painting on 38 metre high grain silos.
FORM began the PUBLIC Silo Trail by painting the Northam CBH Group grain silos in March 2015.
It’s important to note that the Northam Silos are fully operational and no unauthorised access is allowed on this site. There is a one-way pullover place for cars and caravans and photos can be taken of the silos from there.
Octopus
Image source Phlegm
Artist: Phlegm
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: Former Navy Stores, corner Canning Highway and Queen Victoria St, Fremantle.
Provenance: City of Fremantle
Description: Painted by Phlegm for public2015.
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Rainbow Serpent
Image source Waone Interesni Kaski
Artist: Waone Interesni Kazki
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: 22 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge, Perth, WA.
Provenance: City of Perth
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Jumping the Shark
Image source Instagram
Artist: Haylee Fieldes (Fieldey)
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: 367 Albany Hw, Lincoln St. side. Victoria Park, Perth, WA.
Provenance: Town of Victoria Park
Description: The shark that now surges from the wall of The Good Store, accompanied by a mermaid, represents a departure from those ideas, however.
“I wanted to go back to the fun and characters from my surfboard art,” explains Fieldey. “The work is called Jumping the Shark. I’m making a joke about the expression ‘jumping the shark’ with my art,” she says.
This expression, which has its origins in TV series Happy Days, is worth googling. “In my piece I thought I’d do a mermaid riding a shark. She’s got four arms, she’s holding a riding crop and she’s giving a thumbs up. It’s ridiculous… and fun! I’m taking something masculine and... gruesome and turning it on its head.” - Nina Levy, The West Australian.
The mural has been partially destroyed in order to add another entrance to the building.
Banksia Man
Image source Instagram
Artist: Aleksei Bordusov (Aec Interesni Kazki)
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2015
Location: North Metropolitan TAFE Building 1, Northbridge, Perth, WA. Can be seen clearly from Francis St.
Provenance: City of Perth
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Co-existence
Image source Eugene Scrivener (Museum of Perth)
Artist: Peter Lowe
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 1997
Location: Council House Gardens, South Western side of elliptical grassed terrace behind Council House
Provenance: City of Perth
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To Serve and Protect
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Miriam Plum
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: 435 Robinson St, East Carnarvon WA 6701
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: This beautiful mural tells the story of our service men and women of the Pilbara Regiment and Reservist from Carnarvon and the Gascoyne region.
The rich earthy tones are synonymous with this country. The silhouette and sketched images of the service personnel at work.
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Lest We Forget
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Miranda Plum
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: 435 Robinson St, East Carnarvon WA 6701
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: A moving tribute to our service men and women past, present, and future.
“As with the going down of the Sun we shall remember them”.
Situated on the western wall of the Pilbara Regiment Barracks who serve 1.8 Million square kilometres of Western Australia
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Gwoonwardu Mia
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Unknown
Asset Type: Architectural sculpture
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: 146 Robinson St, Carnarvon WA 6701
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: Gwoonwardu Mia, Aboriginal Cultural Centre is a piece of art in itself.
Constructed in a representation of water and meeting place. This incredible building is the art gallery and cultural centre for the five first nation groups that call the Gascoyne home. It is a must visit and experience.
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Don’t Look at the Islands
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Smith Sculptors (Charles Smith, Joan Walsh-Smith)
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2019
Location: 3 Silver City Rd, Babbage Island WA 6701
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: This statue acknowledges the heartache and pain that the Lock Hospitals of Dorre and Bernier Island's hold.
Don't Look At The Islands is a healing memorial or the families of those lost to the islands.
Armour
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Miranda Plum
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2022
Location: 99-121 Robinson St, Carnarvon WA 6701
Provenance: Shire of Carnavon
Description: Armour is the story of the Cicada coming out of the ground, shedding its armour and the ongoing cycle of life in replacing your armour.
Airport Mural
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Miranda Plum, Sobrane
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2021
Location: Carnarvon Airport, Carnarvon, WA
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: Welcoming visitors to Carnarvon, this mural speaks of what Carnarvon has to offer. The beautiful waters of the Indian Ocean and its incredible marine life that visit us throughout the year.
The Pastoralist
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Unknown
Asset Type: Sculpture
Year of Work: 2017
Location: Traffic Island near 32 Robinson St, Carnarvon, WA
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: This iron silhouette of a postoralist is a reflection on the beginnings of this regions establishment by Europeans. Sitting in the shade with the circles representing the water and crops.
Welcome to Country
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Naiomi McMahon
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2024
Location: 4 Francis St, Carnarvon, WA
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: This stunning mural on the front wall of the Shire building with its muted tones speak loudly of the beauty that this region beholds.
Welcome to Country honours our people, past, present and emerging, and shows the love our community has for this country we call home.
Outback Floral
Image source Shire of Carnarvon
Artist: Meraki Boho
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2024
Location: 6 Egan St, Carnarvon, WA
Provenance: Shire of Carnarvon
Description: Talk about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees. This stunning mural is the shop front of Outback Floral Designs.