Adam Goodes mural - Sydney
A large-scale mural of AFL legend Adam Goodes has popped up on a building on the corner of Foveaux and Crown streets in Surry Hills. It was painted by Hamish McBride, Laura Paige, Megan Hales, Jacqueline Butterworth and Kailin Hegel from advertising agency and art studio Apparition Media.
Goodes began his AFL career playing for the Sydney Swans in 1999, until his retirement in 2015.
The football player, whose mother is an Indigenous Australian of Adnyamathanha and Narungga heritage, and whose father is of English, Irish and Scottish ancestry, has been outspoken on racial issues. This contributed to a campaign of booing at games, leading him to take indefinite leave from football, eventually retiring in 2015. The booing led to a national debate about racism, and Goodes's treatment by the AFL (which apologised in 2019 for not acting on the abuse he received from fans of the game).
Source Broadsheet
Adam Goodes mural - Sydney
A large-scale mural of AFL legend Adam Goodes has popped up on a building on the corner of Foveaux and Crown streets in Surry Hills. It was painted by Hamish McBride, Laura Paige, Megan Hales, Jacqueline Butterworth and Kailin Hegel from advertising agency and art studio Apparition Media.
Goodes began his AFL career playing for the Sydney Swans in 1999, until his retirement in 2015.
The football player, whose mother is an Indigenous Australian of Adnyamathanha and Narungga heritage, and whose father is of English, Irish and Scottish ancestry, has been outspoken on racial issues. This contributed to a campaign of booing at games, leading him to take indefinite leave from football, eventually retiring in 2015. The booing led to a national debate about racism, and Goodes's treatment by the AFL (which apologised in 2019 for not acting on the abuse he received from fans of the game).
Source Broadsheet