What took artists five months to create has taken one person minutes to deface.
The Nowra Bridge Indigenous Murals have been attacked by a vandal who has sprayed foul language across the artwork that pays tribute to the Shoalhaven and its indigenous cultural links.
The Murals also focused on the 2023 Naidoc Week theme ‘For Our Elders’ the important role of elders across the generations.
Glenn DUFFIELD, who headed up the team of TAFE students that painted the murals, is devastated.
He said, “It’s not just me, but all the students who helped me to do it as well. It was five months work to do the murals and it was something we were proud of and then they go and do something like that, it’s pretty disrespectful.”
” I thought it would be the sort of thing where kids would stop and look at it, take it all in. It’s there for everybody to look at and enjoy, it disappoints a lot of people,” Mr Duffield said.
Mr Duffield said he would like to see the person responsible, who has no obvious artistic talent, to cleanup the graffiti.
Anyone with information should contact Nowra Police or CrimeStoppers.
