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Community mural at Auburn Railway Station

Community mural at Auburn Railway Station October 1994.

• At the left is Mahmoud Yekta, the local community arts worker.

• Photos: Auburn Community Development Network.

• Mahmoud Yekta with smashed left hand-end of mural, the Aboriginal Dreamtime segment. The eyes and face of the self-portrait of the artist, Darren Bloomfield, have been torn and slashed.

• Photo: Jeff Darmanin, Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group.

• The kangaroo survived the destruction.

• Painting: Darren Bloomfield. Photo: Andrew Jakubowicz.

• The blonde woman on the grass is untouched.

• Painting: Geoff Nance. Photo: Andrew Jakubowicz.

• The horsewoman, representing the colonial traditions, has a scratch across her face, but it appears almost accidental on the way to another, more purposeful attack.

• Painting: Geoff Nance. Photo: Andrew Jakubowicz.

• The eyes of the child are the target here. Why should blindness be seen as the cruellest stroke?

• Painting: Geoff Nance. Photo: Jeff Darmanin, Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group.

• The eyes of the woman are gouged, the rips like tears of blood on her cheeks.

• Painting: Geoff Nance. Photo: Andrew Jakubowicz.

• Mahmoud Yekta, the community arts worker, thinking about how the mural will look once in place, prior to its installation, October 1994.

• Photo: Jeff Darmanin, Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group.

• “Mural banned: too few Anglos shown” 26/10/94.

• Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group. Photo: Jeff Darmanin.

• “Mural signifies culture” 2/11/94. Courtesy: Review Pictorial Newspaper, Photo: Katie McRobert.

• “Mural faces slashed”, 2 November 1994.

• Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group. Photo: Jeff Darmanin.

• “Mural hit again”, 16 November 1994.

• Courtesy: the Parramatta Advertiser, Cumberland Newspaper Group. Photo: Jeff Darmanin

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