Artists Rally to Save Mural
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The Perth PRIVATE FUNCTIONS END OF YEARBOOK NOW! Voiceo N 794 Saturday August 31, 2013 • Phone 9430 7727 • www.perthvoice.com • [email protected] [email protected] Farm mulches jobs self-funding, but it hasn’t really by STEPHEN POLLOCK worked and it didn’t pass the fi CITY FARM has sacked its nancial tests we had set.” manager and seven sta have For 19 years the urban farm has operated under the auspices walked after being handed of MOTT, whose board sanctioned new contracts with heavily any and all changes at the reduced hours. property. Cli Morris, CEO of Men of the In April the farm, under Mr Trees—the organisation the farm Forte and co-manager Julie Broad, answers to—says drastic action established a committee to oversee was needed because the East Perth its transition to independence, site is haemorrhaging cash. with its own governing board and But Michael Forte, axed after a new constitution. managing the farm for nearly Mr Forte says there were some two years, says the farm was, “personality issues” between “performing at an extremely high farm management and MOTT— level and we had a good business refusing to elaborate—but was plan in place”. adamant the independent model “The cafe, venue hire and was profi table. produce sales were all going well,” Married with two kids, Mr the former New Yorker told the Forte now plans to start his own Voice. organisation with ex-farm sta ers, “The management takeover transforming gardens and vegie • Lady Bananas and a fellow Anonymous Artists’ Collective member at Perth City Farm. Photo by Jeremy Dixon came as a bit of a shock, and I only patches throughout Perth. He says found out last week that I was he still derives an income from a getting let go.” business in NYC. Artists rally to save mural Mr Morris says the maths After 17 years transforming the is simple: “Expenditure was old scrap metal yard, City Farm VALUABLE urban art at internationally renowned and “Jarrad Hawkins (AXUP), who exceeding income and we were founders Rosanne and Thom Scott Perth City Farm is in danger have exhibited at the National worked on that piece with the subsiding the farm from other hung up their gardening gloves of being lost says a local art Gallery of Victoria and other 3DB crew, sadly died in March,” limbs of the MOTT. in 2011 to move to New Norcia. high-falutin’ places. she says. group whose protests have— fi “Once the farm is in better The farm has a 40-year peppercorn temporarily at least—halted Lady Bananas is pleased “It was the rst, legal large- fi nancial shape we would have lease with the Metropolitan City Farm—wracked in recent scale mural where the crew had upped the hours of sta , but we Redevelopment Authority—due the destruction of an 18-year- weeks by its own management the chance to really showcase to had to cut them back temporarily. for review next year. Green World old mural. turmoil—has halted the paint- the rest of Australia what they “Recently the farm made a Revolution has been appointed to City Farm had planned to over but wants assurances of a did best. move to become independent and manage the farm. allow a visiting European artist more lasting solution. “This mural concept pushed to paint over the work, as it was Cli Morris, CEO of Men their personal artistic skills looking tired. Lady Bananas from of the Trees, the organisation and boundaries, and it was Artists Anonymous Collective in charge of City Farm, says he completed with a great sense of Burnside proposes says that would be completely recognises the signifi cance of achievement.” misreading the value of urban urban art and will ensure any She notes a request from 3DB art. future attempts to modify it come for it to repaint the mural if the “The farm is where graffi ti art before the MOTT committee fi rst. farm ever decided it required cheaper, kinder way fi rst found a heart and home in Lady Bananas notes a refreshing, was rejected. their country where they’ll be Perth, over 20 years ago,” she tells 2011 farm mural, Ironlak in She is lobbying Perth city by DAVID BELL slaughtered. I think it’s a pretty the Voice. “The artwork currently Wonderland, has sentimental as council to protect all historic on the walls of City Farm needs well as artistic value. graffi ti across the city. HUMAN rights lawyer miserable approach.” He says, “a safe way of getting to be recognised for its historical, Julian Burnside is in Perth to cultural and artistic value and the Find the Fake Ad propose an alternative to the them here if we’re concerned JOB$ 4 YOU about people drowning at sea is importance this value has to the & win a chance for major parties’ “cruel” refugee to set up a processing centre in wider community.” STEPHANIE has awesome policies. City Farm has been a spiritual newspaper delivery rounds Indonesia, tell them they’ll be ffi a feast for two “We seem troubled by people resettled safely in Australia and home for Perth gra ti since 1995, available—especially in drowning at sea trying to reach New Zealand... in six weeks, or when then-management invited artists who’d been illegally YOKINE, INGLEWOOD and Australia,” he told the Voice. two months, or four-and-a-half DIANELLA (lovely areas to “We seem less troubled by the months”. tagging the site to re-paint its idea that if we’re nasty enough Awarded the Order of Australia barns and buildings. take a weekend walk). Give Many, including DASH we can deter them from leaving • continued page 2 Steph a call today on See competitions for details and KID ZOOM, are now 9430 7277. Be quick! Advertisement Chaotic Government, Carbon tax, Mining tax, == Debt, plus boats, boats and more Alannah MacTiernan boats. Authorised by B Morton, 640 Murray St, West Perth WA. PROUDLY Refugee forum today • from page 1 should be manageable. cost. We would be saving $2.5 CELEBRATING in 2009 “for service as a human Mr Burnside says instead billion a year on what we’d rights advocate” he says the of paying $300,000 per person otherwise spend brutalising OUR SECOND 5000 to 10,000 asylum seekers per year to multinational them with the incredible cost currently in Indonesia could companies like Serco to detain of holding them in detention easily be absorbed by Australia. people, asylum seekers could be in remote locations and on ANNIVERSARY! Mr Burnside concedes this temporarily relocated to country Christmas Island.” • Dr Mark Edelman would result in many more then towns while their applications Mr Burnside will speak at a • Dr Jenny Fay making their way to Indonesia to were processed. Greens’ organised refugee forum receive similar treatment, adding They’d be given a right to today, Saturday August 31, • Dr Mark Flynn his plan requires working with work but, even in worst-case alongside senator Scott Ludlam, • Dr Cate Mansfi eld Indonesia to deal with the infl ux. scenarios, says even if they the Uniting Church’s Rosemary But he points out people stayed on the dole their cash Hudson Miller, refugee advocate • Dr Todd Silbert don’t leave their homes lightly, would help revive struggling Phil Chilton and comedian Sami and 90 per cent of asylum regional economies. Shah. We are also very pleased to welcome New seekers are found to be genuine “That would end up costing It is at the WA Italian Club, refugees fl eeing trouble. us about $30,000 per person per 6–8pm. Entry is free but RSVP two new female doctors to the practice Patients He’s convinced the numbers year”—a tenth of the current [email protected] • Dr Anne Khouri Welcome • Dr Elizabeth Sinclair Mall rail plan • Same day appointments available trammelled • 3 hrs free ticket parking behind the building off View St INSTALLING full-scale models of trams in the Hay Street Mall • Clinipath collection centre at rear of building has paid o for Perth city council, • Chemists, Physio, Podiatry & Optometrist within walking distance with emails fl ooding in. The PCC opposes the Barnett government’s plan to run trams through the mall and so does 93 per cent of the public, according OPENING HOURS: 435 Fitzgerald St to the emails. The PCC reckons 8am - 8pm Mon - Thurs North Perth light rail should go down St 8am - 6pm Fri Georges Terrace instead. Lord T: 9228 8173 9am - 1pm Sat mayor Lisa Scaffi di says the trams’ impact on the narrow mall is too“extreme”. She points out 1769 people attended Melbourne emergency • Activist Amber Maxwell has taken her own life a week before a departments as a result of tram rally she’d helped plan. Photo supplied | Dean Smith Photography accidents between 2001 and 2008, with 107 classifi ed as “major traumas”. Nine died. Activist’s suicide Buggy casts pall on rally vs bugs “Life as a transgender or by DAVID BELL gender-diverse person is often ffi A YOUNG activist has taken characterised by di culty and her own life a week before a discrimination,” she wrote. “Family rejection, homelessness, marriage equality rally she’d depression, attempted suicide— helped organise. these are a regular part of our Equal Love WA co-convenor existence.” She wrote the equal Amber Maxwell, 20, died marriage campaign was a “ray Saturday August 24 at 5.44pm, of hope” in her life and a “source shortly after attending a refugee of inspiration”.