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Creature Creature
CREATURE CREATURE is an artist duo hailing from Melbourne, Australia, comprising Chanel Tang and Ambrose Rehorek.
With a collaborative art practice that spans across exhibiting art, murals, street art, design, and illustration, they have established themselves as a unique voice in the artistic landscape.
Incorporating their Chinese and Czech backgrounds, Creature Creature’s art is a convergence of Asian aesthetics and style with a Western perspective, resulting in works brimming with contrast and fluidity.
Their work embodies the concept of duality and the sum of a whole, emphasising messages of togetherness, states of balance, yin and yang. Through their partnership, they aim to preserve diversity and create artistic expressions that are complex, layered, and interconnected, celebrating the beauty of unity.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The scene of this mural features other water life that are both auspicious in Asian symbolism and a reflection of the biodiversity of the area. It aims to reflect the interconnectedness of all things and invoke a meditation within nature.
As the year of the Dragon is upon us, we wanted to depict this indomitable and iconic creature. Being a recognizable symbol in both Eastern and Western folklore, its presence is powerful in bridging these two cultures and reflecting the diversity of its environment here in multi-cultural Darwin.
With Darwin's history with the Chinese community and Chanel's own heritage, we took inspiration from the Chinese Dragon or Loong, a living force that moves bodies of water.
Among other water animals, there have been suggestions that the mythical Dragon was inspired by a Chinese alligator so we took inspiration from Northern Territory Crocodiles, in the way it surfaces on the water, looking ancient, stoic, immortal.
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Mural Location: Garramilla Boulevard, near the Corner of McMinn St, Darwin City
