Part 5 History of the Mundaring Arts Centre...

Bus Shelter on GEH near Mahogany Inn, 1996

This year the Mundaring Arts Centre is celebrating 40 years. This week Lost Mundaring & Surroundings is discussing the 1996 Bus Shelter Project.

Part 5 History of MAC...

This project was initiated by Jude van der Merwe, then the Community Arts Organiser, in 1996. The original idea of this project was to engage local historians to work with an artist and school students to paint a series of bus shelters along the GEH using historical themes. It was important that the designs maintained a balance between European and Aboriginal imagery and artists to recognise that the district had a significant indigenous presence before European settlement. The response was extremely positive, with much of the feedback to the Shire and the Arts Centre commenting on the appropriateness of the chosen imagery and the refreshing approach to the bus shelter designs.

The first participants were:

Sarah Toohey + Glen Forest PS, EHSHS and Helena College Seniors + Maureen Tie (MHHS): 5 bus shelters round the themes of timber industry; animals and farming; convicts and bushrangers; the fire at Bugle Tree Gully and Jane Byfield along the stretch of GEH between Grancey Ave and Bilgoman Road).

Adrienne Buttrose + MHHS

Julie Dowling + twin sister and brother in law: an historica nad current view of the area and the city of Perth from an Aboriginal perspective (Bilgoman Road).

Val Takao + her husband and sister Jeanette Patrick: Indigenous animal and bird life (Bilgoman Pool).

Robin Madafferi + Julie Clampert and Britt Madafferi

Thank you to the Mundaring Arts Centre for supplying the great photo* and information!

*(The photo below: Bus Shelter GEH near Mahogany Inn, 1996)

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