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The Football Players

Image source City of Subiaco

Artist: George Haynes

Asset Type: Mural

Year of Work: 1995

Location: Subiaco Oval

Provenance: City of Subiaco

Description: In the year of the Fremantle Dockers set-up - there was debate about whether this artwork should depict all Eagles, or some Dockers. The solution was to include some historic players in period costume, who are all recognisable heroes. George Haynes painted the football legends onto cut-out boards in his studio. This experience proved to be the inspiration behind George’s well-known series of threedimensional anamorphic sculptures.

Born in Kenya and brought up in the United Kingdom, artist and lecturer George Haynes has exhibited consistently since arriving in
Australia in 1962. A regular exhibitor in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, George received
an Artsource Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and his works can be found in all the major Australian public, university and private collections.

The commission was arranged by Sue Crowdace, interior designer and wife of the architect Michael Crowdace.

Decommissioned Status: 2018 - Good condition, however this work will be destroyed when the grandstand is demolished in 2019.

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Untitled Wallart Subiaco Oval

Image source City of Subiaco

Artist: David Gregson

Asset Type: Mural

Year of Work: 1995

Location: Subiaco Oval

Provenance: City of Subiaco

Description: Footballers leap, sprint, dive and tackle their way across the wall; full of energy and life. The thirty metre long mural is painted directly onto a concrete wall in the stadium at Subiaco Oval, (currently known a Patterson's Stadium).

The painting, by one of Western Australia’s most highly respected figurative painters, is a treasure of the Subiaco Public Art Collection, commissioned in partnership with the Western Australian Football Association.

David Gregson was a passionate propagator of the power of art to communicate and transform our everyday existences. Through his dynamic fifty-year painting career alongside a teaching career, his infectious love of life and colour inspired a raft of young artists.

Decommissioned Status: 2018 - Good condition, however the grandstand was planned for demolition in 2019.

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