Community mural at Auburn Railway Station Making Multicultural

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Community mural at Auburn Railway Station October 1994. • At the left is Mahmoud Yekta, the • local community arts worker. Photos: Auburn Community Development Network.

• Mahmoud Yekta with smashed left • hand-end of mural, the Aboriginal Dreamtime segment. The eyes and face of the self-portrait of the artist, Darren Bloomfield, have been torn and slashed. Photo: Jeff Darmanin, Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group.

• The kangaroo survived the • destruction. Painting: Darren Bloomfield. Photo: Andrew Jakubowicz.

• The blonde woman on the grass is • untouched. Painting: Geoff Nance. Photo: Andrew Jakubowicz.

• The horsewoman, representing • the colonial traditions, has a scratch across her face, but it appears almost accidental on the way to another, more purposeful attack. Painting: Geoff Nance. Photo: Andrew Jakubowicz.

• The eyes of the child are the target • here. Why should blindness be seen as the cruellest stroke? Painting: Geoff Nance. Photo: Jeff Darmanin, Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group.

• The eyes of the woman are • gouged, the rips like tears of blood on her cheeks. Painting: Geoff Nance. Photo: Andrew Jakubowicz.

• Mahmoud Yekta, the community • arts worker, thinking about how the mural will look once in place, prior to its installation, October 1994. Photo: Jeff Darmanin, Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group.

• “Mural banned: too few Anglos • shown” 26/10/94. Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group. Photo: Jeff Darmanin.

• “Mural signifies culture” 2/11/94. Courtesy: Review Pictorial Newspaper, Photo: Katie Mc. Robert.

• “Mural faces slashed”, 2 • November 1994. Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group. Photo: Jeff Darmanin.

• “Mural hit again”, 16 November • 1994. Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group. Photo: Jeff Darmanin

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