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Luke Cornish (E.L.K.) with his mural outside the Street Theatre in City West. Photo: Michelle Kroll.
From a cherry picker several stories above a City West car park, the super fine detail in Canberra’s newest major artwork on the side of the Street Theatre is nothing short of remarkable.
Artist Luke Cornish (better know to many as ELK) is using a quickly sourced oak leaf to apply a serrated edge to a skull. The skull, in turn is being held in the hand of a giant Hamlet/everyman figure – who is wearing an all too familiar pandemic mask.
To the right, a mandala that echoes Tibetan spirituality radiates instead with the masks of comedy and tragedy, stage lights and a subtle reference to Parliament House and the people who inhabit it….
