David Ledger, Convergence 1, 2 & 3, 2024
Department of Education, WA Percent for Art Scheme
Mt Lawley Senior High School

David created a series three large scale printed artworks on aluminium, glass & vitrapanel. The artworks weave together intricate connections between the material and metaphysical realms. Each composition is a portal where reality and imagination blur.

Through colour, texture, and form, David explores the essence of place, inviting us on a journey of discovery and contemplation, where the external world resonates harmoniously with our inner landscapes.

Photo by Joanna Clark

The Fremantle Biennale is a biennial festival of site-responsive contemporary art presenting artworks from Australia and the world. Founded by Tom Muller, Corine van Hall and Pete Stone in 2017, the Fremantle Biennale collaborates with artists to commission remarkable and experimental site-responsive contemporary art, across arts forms and practices in non-institutional and appropriated spaces.

The Fremantle Biennale is held every two years in the Nyoongar season of Kambarang (November).

Complementing the core program, is First Lights the unique touring collaborating with First Nations artists across Australia.

Image: Felice Varini, Arc d'Éllipses, photo courtesy Fremantle Biennale

Marcus Canning, Rainbow, #containbow, 2016
City of Fremantle Public Art Collection
Canning Highway, Fremantle

Marcus Canning and the install team from Wanneroo Cranes and True Blue Containers landed Rainbow in a gruelling 12 hour install and online media event with a live audience watching as the 9 sea-containers were craned into place. By sunset that evening Fremantle had a brand new iconic entry statement expressing the culture, energy and industry of the port town.

This was the culmination of two years’ work, from project inception to installation and was the first major artwork the City of Fremantle had commissioned in over a decade.

Rainbow is now a destination for locals and visitors with uncountable instagram hits, has been interpreted by other artists and featured in magazines and book covers.

Photo by Neil Wallace

Trevor Richards, Wildflower, 2019
City of Greater Geraldton, sub-consultant to UDLA
The Rocks Laneway Revitalisation Project

Trevor’s concept for a painted metagraphic painted on walls, roads and laneways through the City Centre redevelopment area uses the colours of the famous Geraldton Wax flower. The artwork weaves through buildings and roads to connect the foreshore to the Art Gallery precinct.

This project was lead by UDLA with Taylor Robinson Chaney Broderick for the revitalisation of the Rocks’ precinct in Geraldton and won the 2020 Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) WA Best Public Works Project $2M–$5M Award (Regional).

Photo courtesy of the artist and UDLA

Sharyn Egan, Weaving Stories, 2017
Scarborough Beach Redevelopment
Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority

The Scarborough Redevelopment was a major state and local government project to transform the beachfront and reposition Scarborough as a safe, attractive and contemporary beach destination.

Public art played a significant role in this plan and took an integrated approach to the design process. Artists were integrated into design teams to celebrate Scarborough as a destination of international standard while bringing local stories into the public domain.

Sharyn Egan’s Weaving Stories was a stunning collaboration with Fred Chaney Architects.

Photo courtesy of the artist and MRA

Melissa Riley, Djilba, 2023
Wilman Wadandi Highway

Djilba by Wadandi artist, Melissa Riley is the entry artwork at Paris Road for the Wilman Wadandi Highway. This was the first of eight integrated murals across the 27km highway.

Melissa’s artwork, fabricated with the help of Mark Datodi of Sparka Design, comprises of 139 unique recessed panels to share her family songline with the coastal sunset, local peppermint trees and banksias.

“My colours, elements and story are from my family’s history that will never be forgotten,” Melissa said.

“DJILBA is about memorable lifelong song lines and stories told through my families song lines.”

Other Wilman Wadandi Highway artworks are by Mel McVee, Dellas and Korrine Bennel, Shirley Michael and Glen Garlett, Kyle Hughes Odgers, Andrew Frazer, Jo Brown and Ian Mutch.

Andrew Frazer, Second Summer Reflections, 2025
Wilman Wadandi Highway

Over four years from concept to completion, eight public art commissions by emerging and accomplished WA artists lead the way on the Wilman Wadandi Highway. These artworks are large scale integrated infrastructure projects.

Local Wilman Wadandi artists were awarded significant projects to share important stories of place and family.

Artists include Melissa Riley, Dellas and Korrine Bennell, Shirley Michael, Glen Garlett, Ian Mutch, Joanna Brown, Mel McVee and Kyle Hughes Odgers.

Photo courtesy of the artist