Grow The Burrendah Way

Design and painting of a mural exploring the 4 R’s – Respect, Resilience, Reach, Responsibility for long term client, Burrendah Primary School. The mural represents these characteristics using a subtle colour palette and semi abstracted style. Students and staff were engaged in the instal process day by day, with the Year 6 classes taking photos […]

Unity

Design and painting of this fun and friendly mural as part of the rejuvenation of Ascot Park in Bertram. This text based mural uses colour, pattern and simple forms to communicate notions of the local community being a diverse, open and welcoming one. The work compliments recent upgrades to the play ground, bbq area, basketball […]

Days End

Private commission to enhance the visual appeal of the swimming pool area of a local home, the mural utilises bold colour and organic shapes to soften the hard architectural edges.

Shearer Heeler

Perth and international mural artist residency in the Great Southern town of Katanning. The work is an interpretation of a local sheep shearer and his blue heeler work mate and is situated at the local primary school.

Bye Bye Brownlie

"Bentley 360" - Brownlie Towers Mural Project

Commissioned by Department of Communities to paint plywood boards installed at Brownlie Towers building prior to their decomissioning. Artwork features explore the notion of community and home and include a large scale family portrait, honouring those who were raised in the social housing complex, as well as the next generation of the new Bentley 360 […]

Sleeping Giant

"Sleeping Giant" - Public Silo Trail – Great Southern - Mural by Darren Hutchens

Local and international artists were invited by Form WA as part of their Public Silo Trail program to beautify regional towns. The event took place over a week in my old home town of Albany on WA ’s south coast. It was amazing to witness the positive community response to the event and to my […]

Dog Days

“Dog Days” - Mural artwork for the Public Transport Authority at the Woodbridge Station Underpass, by Darren Hutchens and Lawry Halden

MEDIA: Woodbridge Station UnderpassPublic Transport Authority – Media Statement The Right Track Urban Art project paired artists Lawry Halden and Darren Hutchens with a group of Year 8 and 9 students who are part of Governor Stirling SHS’s Alternative Personalised Program in Schools program. Using the theme “dog days”, the artists and students collaborated to […]

Future Lost Worlds

"Future Lost Worlds" - Via Torre Laneway, City of Perth - Mural Project by Darren Hutchens, Lawry Halden and Rubeun for the City of Perth

MEDIA: Northbridge mural turns dingy laneway into a street of colourA dingy, graffiti-stained and dirty alley in Northbridge has received a new lease on life through a colourful mural.Perth Now – Media Release Facilitation of a youth engagement project with Mission Australia and City of Perth to beautify Via Torre laneway. Funding secured from the […]

Tanked

MEDIA: Wundowie Water Tank Art”The collaboration between the artists, the primary school, parents and teachers made the artwork a great sense of pride for the whole community.”Australian Silo Art Trail A community engagement and graffiti mitigation project funded through a WA Police crime prevention grant secured by the Shire of Northam.  The project involved an […]