MOUNT Isa’s Art on Zinc project is well underway, with artists from the region finishing a number of artworks at Buchanan Park on schedule.
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The $65,000 community art project was announced earlier this year and received healthy support from Mount Isa artists Sheree Blackley, Sonja Clark, Maria Luff, Barbara Sam and Hannah Illingworth.
Kalkadoon artist Barbara Sam was proud to showcase three of her completed panels which depict the wild landscapes of Mount Isa before John Campbell Miles discovered copper.
The closer you stand to her mural the more you see, from the two Indigenous warriors standing by the river to the laughing kookaburra nestled in the gum tree.
Ms Sam said her next mural would feature two dancing brolgas, a project which she hoped to work with local school children to complete.
The biggest challenge for all the artists was painting around the curves of the corrugated sheet metal on each of the panels.
“Drawing on the corrugation is hard, you’ve got to know just how to use your brush to get straight lines and have everything in perspective,” Ms Sam said.
Work on the murals started just before the Xstrata Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo and have since blossomed into a number of creative artworks including a mock graffiti display from YPA and other creative interpretations of the 90th Birthday theme.
