Duckboard place mural Melbourne for Mural Monday

 

This mural in Duckboard Place, Melbourne, is the work of Steph Mann, who signs her pieces as @stephmann_artist. It is a striking, dreamlike painting that blends surrealism with whimsical natural motifs.

The piece depicts a fawn-like creature with elongated legs, blending seamlessly with tall mushroom stems that appear to grow into and through its body. The creature turns its head gracefully toward a glowing butterfly perched above its back, suggesting a moment of quiet wonder. The background is layered in vivid blues and purples, transitioning into deep magentas and reds on the ground, evoking an otherworldly twilight or dreamscape.

Steph Mann’s work often explores the fantastical and surreal, transforming familiar animals and natural forms into beings that seem to live in a liminal space between dream and reality. The surreal elongation of limbs and the fusion of plant life with animal life suggest a meditation on interconnectedness, transformation, and the strangeness of the natural world when seen through an imaginative lens.

Duckboard Place, adjacent to the more famous Hosier Lane, is one of Melbourne’s renowned street art precincts. It provides a platform for both established and emerging artists to create large-scale murals that merge fine art with urban expression. Mann’s mural contributes to this vibrant gallery of the streets, offering passersby an invitation to pause, reflect, and immerse themselves in a fantastical vision that lingers long after one has walked past.

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