Whispers of the Bush

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• Title: Whispers of the Bush (2024)
• Artist: Geebs
• Wall size: 4.3 metres tall and 9.3 metres wide
• Location: Creative Corner Studio, 196a Denison Road, Dulwich Hill

This street artwork is a stylised depiction of some of the Inner West's local flora and fauna, a Christmas beetle, a dragonfly, and eucalyptus.

Throughout the artwork, eucalyptus leaves of various shades of green, orange and teal green curve in and out of the background and foreground of the work, each with different shapes and characteristics, such as holes or notches. The wall upon which this work was painted is the right side -wall of local business Creative Corner Studio. Creative Corner Studio is located on an intersection in a quiet residential neighbourhood between the Dulwich Hill light rail line and New Canterbury Road. The wall faces Hill Street, a slanting street block, and the peak of the wall's height on the right descends in steps every two metres or so from right to left.

The Christmas beetle is depicted in this artwork in all three of its life stages – a larva, in the lower centre of the artwork, visible through a chewed hole in a eucalyptus leaf on which it feeds, an adolescent beetle climbing another eucalyptus leaf towards the top left of the work, and a mature beetle, the largest and final form, climbing diagonally in the centre of the artwork towards the top right corner. All three life stages of the beetle are rendered in shades of red, orange, beige and green. The larva is simple in detail with the segments of its worm-like body taking on the shades, with a red face framing a single visible eye. The adolescent beetle is depicted side-on, with a distinct head and a bulbous winged body, with three of its six hairy legs visible, and an emerging pattern of lines and dots detailing its wings. The mature form is more resplendent with the pattern having been emboldened in red on its wings, its legs growing and becoming hairier, and its body, depicted top-down, developing the patterns of curving colours found across its surface.

The dragonfly is positioned at the bottom-right of the work, facing to the left, shown top-down. The majority of its left two wings and the tip of its body extend out of frame below and to the right of the artwork. Its body is red, with a single paler stripe extending down its full length, along with small line detailing on the right side of its body. Its wings are green, and semi-transparent, showing the detail of the leaves and environment behind it through their translucent surfaces. The dragonfly hovers above a stylised pool of water, from which faint eucalyptus fronds emerge.

To the bottom right of the work, the artist's name, Geebs, is written neatly upon a green leaf in dark green writing.

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