Here are 3 things you may not know about the two-storey portrait of former Sydney Swans star player Adam Goodes, at the corner of Crown Street and Foveaux Street in Surry Hills. The mural is a little over a kilometre away from the SCG, home ground of Goodes’ former footy team.
1. It took just eight hours to create.
It took four professional artists from Apparition Media eight hours atop a cherry picker to render the AFL legend’s likeness in extraordinary detail.
2. The mural’s creation and unveiling day was delayed by 4 months.
The mural was originally planned to be created and unveiled in February 2020 but the coronavirus health crisis derailed the initial plans. It wasn’t until June 2020 when it came into fruition.
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3. The mural was not really created to make a statement about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Actually, its rescheduled appearance was meant to coincide with the return of the 2020 AFL season which kicked off on June 11, 2020 — the same day that the mural went up.
Less than a week before the mural made a splash in the neighborhood, massive demonstrations about the Black Lives Matter movement had taken place across Australia.
Goodes, who is of mixed Adnyamathanha and Narungga heritage, is a well-known advocate of First Nations rights in the country. Having the mural out just after the demonstrations broke was taken as a message of support by many people. Many still recall the circumstances of his untimely retirement in 2015, when his stance on racial abuse in football elicited both media criticism and racist boos from the fans.
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