City Partners with Local Students to Tackle Graffiti
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Community Safety Officers from the City worked in partnership with South Metropolitan Health Service and Rockingham SHS students alongside an artist to design a locally-inspired mural, which was painted on a City-owned concrete bus shelter outside Rockingham General Hospital.
Students worked with the local artist to paint the mural on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 June 2019 before a preventative graffiti coating was applied. The bus shelter is highlighted by a kangaroo with its indigenous name and kookaburra on each side.
City of Rockingham Mayor Barry Sammels said the mural would enhance the amenity of the area around the bus shelter for the community.
“The mural project on Eleanora Drive in Cooloongup is a fantastic example of stakeholders across the community coming together for a great cause,” Mayor Sammels.
“Graffiti, particularly on bus shelters, is a common issue in the City and this project will play an important role in making it more inviting for users of public transport. The designs featured are visually stunning and the anti-graffiti coating will protect the bus shelter from anti-social behaviour into the future.
“The City of Rockingham gratefully thanks Rockingham SHS and the South Metropolitan Health Service, Health Promotion team for their assistance in delivering this project.”
Image: Rocky Davis and Dean Fisher (both Rockingham Senior High School staff), Jade Green (14), Henry Erasmus (15), Johnathon Peake (13), Matthew Curran (14), and Samantha Prentice (Artist) show off their work at the bus shelter.