Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in Marrickville vandalised | LindaMorrissmh
Having seen the changed work, he said: “It doesn’t really belong to me”. “It belongs to the street.”
His work was mostly received positively but within days had been defaced with a “horrible” epithet, that was subsequently “tidied up” by what Sale said were street art angels. This time, the face of the Queen has been blotted yellow and is surrounded by dripping red paint, pointing to the contested nature of Australia’s history and the representative role the British monarchy played in the colonisation of First Nations people. The Queen’s funeral on Monday night ended 10 days of official mourning in Britain.
Sale said street art was by definition not meant to be static. “It belongs to the people in a way and that’s why I’m torn. I’ve painted this and given it to the street. I might let it stay for now.” No “massive royalist”, the British-born Sale said he had been motivated to paint the Queen using a stencilling technique, to mark a historic moment rather than to make a political statement.
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