Artist Kitt Bennett paints 300m mural on waterfront for Melbourne’s latest and biggest artwork
A massive mural lining Melbourne’s waterfront is to become the Southern Hemisphere’s largest mural. And its creator says the meaning of it is open to interpretation.
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The largest mural in the Southern Hemisphere is being completed by Melbourne artist Kitt Bennett on the waterfront at Port Melbourne.
The 300m-long public artwork Revolution comprises 10 figures of a tumbling man, with the final image to be painted on Friday and Monday.
The project, a collaboration with Melbourne street art network Juddy Roller, has taken Bennett 30 days and 700 litres of acrylic paint to complete on the land owned by Melbourne Cement Facility.
A bricklayer-turned-artist, Bennett said the 9000sq m work was the most ambitious he’d ever undertaken.
“It’s taken a lot of planning but it’s satisfying to see it come together and not just be something on paper,’’ he said.
Bennett has used a drone to photograph each image to check perspectives above Fishermans Wharf but also to help create an animation on completion.
“Animation is an old love of mine so I really wanted to merge it with my mural work,’’ he said.
The inspiration behind the tumbling man idea, was “like any art, open to interpretation’’.
“But for me it represents the nine-to-five routine we find ourselves continually stuck in.’’
The work has been done with rollers and brush, the concrete cracks and weeds offering both a new texture and a challenge.
“It’s something fresh which is going on top of something old.’’