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| Photo: Angela Wylie |
Late last year I had the opportunity to attend a talk by Hazel Dooney while she was in Melbourne installing her first public work Ten Dicta For Young Women Who Are Artists commissioned by the City of Melbourne.
The work is an impressive piece, managing to merge with the landscape yet have passersby stop and engage with the work.
Her mural can be found in Royal Lane, off (231-233) Bourke Street, Melbourne CBD. The mural is made with low sheen acrylic on cement rendered wall, 21.45m wide x 3.4m high.
''It's not pretending to be advertising,'' Dooney says. ''This is not to reflect something about our culture, it is to try to add to the culture. I wanted it to have humour and truth but not be a lecture. I wanted it to be broadly accessible.''
Hazel was warm and generous with her time and very expansive with her views and thoughts on all questions asked of her.
Here’s a further link including video from The Age newspaper.
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