Kate Georgallas - People's Place Mural
Kate Brown Georgallas—Mural
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My concept for the Library Mural was to celebrate the culture of our local region using visual patterns, textures, and colours taken from the arts and crafts of many Antigonish traditions. Look closely and you can see elements of pottery, rug hooking, quilting, painted manuscript, and other unique genres. I also wanted to suggest the beautiful local landscape as well as town and county landmarks. There are birds and wildlife too: a perfect match with the decorative concept of the mural as a whole. The figures dancing, working and performing show the act of celebration, history and community. The mural is framed on one side with the Antigonish landing and on the other side with the sea, defining how water is an important aspect of our life, commerce, and culture. The bear and the berries symbolize the town and a river meanders through the whole mural bringing everything together. The mural is painted in acrylics on gesso-primed hardboard. I work largely in oils, acrylics and as a printmaker focusing on landscape, animals and the figure. My other works can be seen in local galleries and in galleries across the Maritimes. My other murals can be seen throughout the town of Antigonish, including St. Martha's Hospital, Sunshine on Main and Wong's Dragon.
