KSS October eKourier 2024

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EMBRACING STREET ART AT KENNARDS STORAGE

O ur bright orange beacons of Freedom (buildings) located in high profile visible locations can become a target for those looking to increase their own profiles. By those I mean graffiti artists or street artists. What is the difference? Most would say not much, but in general street art is usually sanctioned and involves imagery while graffiti is generally text based with the intention of tagging and often considered vandalism. Some of our high-profile buildings were constantly being tagged with graffiti. Our team would then have to go out and try cleaning off the graffiti or ultimately paint over it creating another issue, the affected wall turning into a patchwork quilt of blue and orange touch up paint. In 2019, in a move to combat the problem we

decided to engage the services of a street artist named Joe Quilter to paint murals on some of our buildings.

somewhat branded to our KSS blue.

Our final location is Marrickville (pictured above left) an inner-city location. Remaining in the shades of blue theme the Marrickville design is a little more contemporary, having a little more free licence and fun with the design is a combination of nature and industrial images combined to create a flowing spectacle of wonderful imagery. Joe also added a sneak image of baby Yoda. The credibility that Joe has as an artist in the Sydney area has meant that the murals have remained untouched for the last five years. Not only have we solved our graffiti problem, we have now added to the to beautification and cultural expression of the local area transforming a plain wall into a visually appealing work of art. Darren Marshall Chief Operating Officer

We now have three locations with prominent street art in Sydney.

Mona Vale (pictured top) has street art spanning the front of the property facing busy Barrenjoey Road Mona Vale. The theme of the artwork is sea life. Depicting fish, jelly fish, whales dolphins and turtles all in beautiful vibrant colours and imagery. Themed in line with Mona Vales coastal location. Petersham (pictured above right) located on busy Parramatta Road is a prized location for graffiti artist to display their tags, but now displays the Australian outback flora, fauna that includes images of a dingo and snake and outback marsupials. All in different shades and hues of blue, keeping

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