Winters said he had used the idea of “pages of the school’s history blowing in the wind, to evoke the passing of time”. Working from a scale drawing, he created the mural in monochrome and colour in his studio in Dubbo on large transportable panels, assembled at the school for installation on a wall at the front of the school in Fleming Street, Watson.
He told the crowd that when undertaking an art commission such as this, you had to meet those who commissioned you half way. In his finished work, which had only been installed from 5.50 this morning, he had incorporated a string of rosary beads and made reference to indigenous Australians, an import motif in the school and to the ethos of Rosary Primary that “we should tread on God’s earth lightly.”
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