Art that can be achieved by everyone is the ethos behind a new street art project at George Town.
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About 60 students from the Port Dalrymple School were involved in the project that gave the skate park a makeover.
Social worker and artist Fakington Wilde, who is the City Mission's art facilitator, has helped with the project alongside Relationship Australia's Sam Shand in collaboration with the George Town Council and the school. Wilde said he has worked on safe, abstract processes that make the doing of art easily accessible to everyone.
He created a special grid design for the skate park.
“I've been coming up with systems to make art not scary ... when I say safe, I just mean anyone can do it. The art work is non-confronting and no matter who you are, you are going to have as good a result as anyone else, and you can walk away feeling a sense of accomplishment,” he said.
The pupils first received lessons about graffiti art processes, and then came up with positive words that represent their experiences of living in George Town.
“The brief was to draw big squares or small squares, it just had to be squares, and instantly the kids knew how to do that,” he said. “It looks amazing ... and all the kids really loved being involved. They couldn't put their cans down, they just wanted to keep doing it and doing it, and that is the mindfulness of art, you lose yourself in the process”