Parts of Alice Springs are being brightened up this week as part of its inaugural street art festival, the new works joining the town's older public art pieces, probably the best known of which is Kaye and Bob Kessing's mural of 1981. The historical work, which features Aboriginal stockmen, artist Albert Namatjira, explorer John McDouall Stuart, Afghan pioneers and many others, transformed a rather bleak looking wall on the rear of the brand new Coles Complex. After two months of accosting people out the front of the supermarket to get their input on five possible designs, the Kessings got to work with more than 200 volunteers to complete the mural, including many school kids who skipped school to help out. Image: Kaye and Bob Kessing

Published: 21 October 2018