Community
26 March, 2025
Burke Street Shed brought to life in Mount Isa
The initiative was supported by the Riverbed Action Group Outreach and Support Service.
Harmony Week has been marked at the Burke Street Shed with the beginnings of a new mural along the street front.
Riverbed Action Group Outreach and Support Service manager Sally Shore said she had been planning for some time to transform the shed wall and thought the cultural diversity celebration would be a good time to splash the first coats of paint.
Sally began by inviting a couple of men wandering along the Leichhardt Riverbed to come along and assist with the painting a long black block across the wall.
She then worked on illustrating a large tree as a centrepiece to the planned landscape design.
When the Burke Street Shed celebrated with a multicultural feast, all who attended were invited to paint their hand print on the wall, which created a string of coloured splotches around the tree.
“I think the tree brings life, brings everyone together and the handprints show how everyone’s fingerprints are unique because we are all unique,” Sally told North West Weekly.
“Harmony Week is all about celebrating diversity and celebrating our differences and that’s some of the imagery we have tried to mark on this new mural.”
She said the mural was a work in progress that would be gradually added to over time.