The making of a community mural (Story Book) - North Yarra ...

Acknowledgements
Thank you to all the people who contributed their thoughts, ideas, expertise, time, and most
importantly their emotions to our new mural. Thank you to all community members and the Year 9
students at Collingwood College who work-shopped, discussed, shared, drew and painted the
images which now adorn the Hoddle Street façade.
I want to particularly thank all our financial contributors who made this project possible through their
generous funding – they are acknowledged on page 3. I would like to express my particular gratitude
to a generous private donor who wishes to remain anonymous.
We all know that never has there been a community project that would have come to fruition without
the generous help and assistance from many individuals and organisations in that community. Thank
you to the mob at Collingwood Neighbourhood House, the Neighbourhood Justice Centre and the
Collingwood Housing Estate Arts Committee (CHEAC) for providing space for the workshops; all the
workers who cooked yummy food for us; Collingwood College for integrating the mural project into
their Art Recreation and Community program of the Year 9 students; the City of Yarra for additional
support when needed, and, especially Fiona Hillary from Arts & Culture and the staff in Council’s
planning departments who were unfailingly helpful.
Thank you to the Board of Management of North Yarra Community Health and my colleagues. My
very special thanks to Chris O’Neill who, despite his ongoing health issues was supportive and
encouraging from the outset, and provided a sympathetic ear as well as practical suggestions as we
negotiated the complexities of the project. Thanks to Tony Campbell for his architectural expertise, to
Rob Cruse, who contributed to the photographic record of the project and Ramset for the generous
supply of fasteners to attach the images to the wall.
Our list of thanks also includes: Atefeh Sanae, Bich Ha, Carla Yarmine, Chathura Arachchige,
Dawn Stickland, Elsie Smith, Faranak Safae, Frank Thompson, Geoff Clark & Anthony & Phillip (our
renderers), Jodi Cornish, Keith Fitzgerald, Libby Walker, Maria Luciani, Paul Brophy, Ralph Kempf
(handyman extraordinaire), Rosemary Mangiamele, Sam & Guiseppe La Torre (who knocked the old
murals down), Samantha Jones, Sue Kent, Siu Chan and Zamzam Ibrahim.
A particular thank you to Phil Hall for championing the need for good documentation. This story book,
which records the project would not have been produced without his input, nor without the generous
support of the Neighbourhood Justice Centre which funded the publication. Tania Furlong made a
valuable contribution in the editing of the story book, and I want to thank her for that.
Last but certainly not least – artists Ellen Michel and Mandy Nicholson without whose vision,
determination, hard work and skill we would not have completed this beautiful project.
Marlies Blatz
Project Coordinator
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IN THE FLOW - the making of a community mural