Coal Miners Art

[Isac]

This wall art was done by a local Fremantle boy named Jacob Butler (aka Shakey).
ALL ABOUT HIM
I photographed these in a mall entrance to Woolworths supermarket in Collie W.A.

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[HansE]

Wonderful, Historic as well. The paintings will probably not last as long as the images made from them. Mining in the future will probably be done by robotics.

[wigz]

Very interesting images Isac. Thanks.

[Isac]

Wonderful, Historic as well. The paintings will probably not last as long as the images made from them. Mining in the future will probably be done by robotics.

Cheers Hans. I hope they look after the paintings for as long as possible. In the future, they may come up with a coating that will prolong their life. Rio Tinto has 2 mines in the Pilbara whaich are using fully automated driverless Haulpaks which carry up to 230 tonnes and go 24/7, no tea or lunch breaks. Gina is making much more billions now she doesn't need drivers. My bass player's son was a computer design engineer that wrote software that runs them when they first came here and he operated one with a computer and joystick from the Perth office, about 1200km away.

Very interesting images Isac. Thanks.

You're welcome Alan. Better to see in the flesh but photos are good too.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

A beaut series of images - and some excellent art work there by 'Shakey'

For those images, they are probably over-painted with a lacquer / varnish to protect them from graffiti goons as well

Phil

[Isac]

Cheers Phil. He's a very talented artist. I reckon a coating has been applied. I don't think graffiti scumbags would dare deface that lot. The locals would probably escort them down a dark alleyway and give them a jolly good talking to!