Raf McDonald: Market Mural - is the old marketplace receding or appearing?
Market Mural: Raf McDonald
15 March 2021 - 16 March 2026
Artist: Raf McDonald
Location: Mason Square, Everage Street, Moonee Ponds
Market Mural by Raf McDonald is a public art installation that transforms the exterior wall of Everage Street, Moonee Ponds into a multi-layered artwork.
The work responds to the history of the site as a former marketplace.
The mural includes text which reads, "is the old marketplace receding or appearing?" inviting the viewer to contemplate the echoes and sensory impressions of the old market and imagine how the remnants of this place move with us through time.
Working with the visual language of abstraction, a form of non-representative art-making, Rafaella encourages the viewer to interpret the shapes, figures, and gestures present through their own thoughts and experiences.
The colour palette and painting techniques used are intentionally anachronistic, reminiscent of the 1990's era when murals were hand-painted with brushes and stencils to create the distinct gestures, tonal shifts, and textures within the work.
Market Mural commemorates past and present notions of place, while illustrating the role that public art can play in celebrating our local neighbourhoods and communities.
Raf McDonald enacts queer approaches to painting by attending to colours, textures, improvisations and hand-made materials. These processes lead the artist to imagine and propose different ways of relating; to each other; our environments and non-human beings.
McDonald has held solo exhibitions at Chapter House Lane Gallery (2018), TCB Art Inc. (2017) and Fort Delta (2015), and has appeared in collaborative and group shows at Footscray Arts Centre (2021), Blindside Gallery (2021, 2012), West Space (2020, 2017), Lon Gallery (2019), Mel X NYC Festival (2018), Daine Singer Gallery (2018), the Substation (2017), Next Wave Festival (2016), and Cemeti House and Sangkring Art Space in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2013). Their murals have been commissioned by Arts House (2022), Moonee Valley City Council (2021), Melbourne Metro Authority (2017), the City of Stonnington (2016) and Shepparton Art Museum (2015). McDonald has undertaken residencies at Little House Gallery (Los Angeles) and won the 2017 Midsumma Arts Prize. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (2015) and a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Melbourne (2009).
Market Mural was commissioned by Moonee Valley City Council in 2021 and funded by Caydon Property Group.
Raf McDonald was selected by invitation and worked with the Rise Owner's Corporation Working Group to develop the final outcome.
❊ When ❊
Happens: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Time: 11am-4pm Tuesday to Sunday
❊ Where ❊
Incinerator Gallery View Venue
180 Holmes Road, Aberfeldie Victoria 3039 Map
✆ Venue: 8325 1750 | Event:
❊ Web Links ❊
Advertiser:
incineratorgallery.com.au
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