About This Project

Seven local female artists have delivered vibrant murals for Banco Group’s East Brunswick Village’s newest residential buildings. Across the combined 11 levels of Elm Grove and Fasteners Way, these artists have transformed the entry hallways of each apartment level into immersive, expressive environments.

Bringing art into the everyday lives of the new residents, each artist responded to the vibrant gardens and natural environment of EBV to transform each floor’s entry hallway into welcoming, expressive spaces that bring the natural landscape into the Village.

The project champions greater representation in public art, commissioning seven local women artists with diverse practices in an industry where they remain underrepresented. ADA Consulting have been the public art consultants for EBV since 2018, overseeing the integration of more than 75 artists across the Village to date.

Angharad Neal-Williams, 2026, Elm Grove. Left: Cut flowers, a set table & tea, Fifth Floor Right: Ground level, Third Floor

Angharad Neal-Williams brightened up level three and five of Elm Grove with two murals using contemporary still life to capture the idea of care in our gardens. Each moment in the murals speaks to the garden as collaborative space, inviting reflection on the activity and momentum of the natural world in the surrounding gardens.

Left & Middle: Melanie Young, Bushland of Merri Creek, 2026, Fastener’s Way, Fourth Floor. Right: Melanie Young, Spinebill and Butterflies, 2026, Elm Grove, Fourth Floor. Photography by Jack de Marie Smith.

On the fourth level of each Elm Grove and Fastener’s Way, Melanie Young’s murals celebrate the Merri Creek landscape and local wildlife in a style inspired by Japanese screen painting and the light of Australian impressionists. In Elm Grove’s Spinebill and Butterflies, Melanie’s use of nuanced colours and layered textures to connect with the natural world. Fastener’s Way’s Bushland of Merri Creek features red gums, sheoaks, grasses, and flowering wattle in harmonious colours to immersively bring the bushland indoors.

Sasha Heath (hellotomato), The Merri Corridor, 2026, Fastener’s Way, Third Floor. Photography by Jack de Marie Smith.

Sasha Heath (hellotomato) created The Merri Corridor for the third floor of Fastener’s Way, drawing on the surrounding green spaces of Merri Creek and nearby gardens and parks to bring elements of the local landscape indoors. Native plants such as everlasting dwarf banksia and native violet appear alongside birds and insects, reflecting the area’s rich ecology.

Jess Lowther (Hoffy), Tread Lightly, 2026, First Floor. Left: Elm Grove, Right: Fastener’s Way.

Jess Lowther (Hoffy) contributed a mural that flows across the first level of both buildings. Drawing on the nearby gardens and often-unnoticed details of a thriving natural environment, Tread Lightly features organic patterns inspired by local flora and fauna, from bees and grasses to seed pods and water ripples. The soft, floating forms echo the shapes of insects and their wings including butterflies, moths and bees to evoke movement and lightness, offering a moment of quiet discovery.

Left: Yuria Okamura, Medicine Garden, 2026, Elm Grove, Second Floor. Middle & Right: Yuria Okamura, Native Garden, 2026, Fastener’s Way, Second Floor. Photography by Jack de Marie Smith.

Yuria Okamura’s Native Garden and Meditation Garden on the second level of each building Combining botanical and geometric forms to celebrate plants as sacred beings. Inspired by traditions of herbalism and animism, the piece portrays native and medicinal plants from East Brunswick Village’s gardens, inviting residents to connect with nature and experience a calming sense of home.

Merindah-Gunya (Bayley Mifsud), Together On Country, 2026, Elm Grove, Ground Floor.

Merindah-Gunya (Bayley Mifsud) is a Peek Whurrong artist who continues traditions of Storytelling through her art. Her Elm Grove ground floor mural Together on Country tells a story of deep connection to Country—to place, people, and the journeys that bring us together. Three meeting places at the beginning of the artwork, represent the past, present, and future—a reminder that each moment in time is connected and continues to shape what comes next. At the centre, the large meeting place reflects this building as a place of gathering, where many individual journeys meet, and a sense of community is formed. The long-neck turtles, the artist’s totem, sit within the artwork as a symbol of guidance, protection, and her personal connection to this story.

Saffron Newey, Mystical Merri Creek at Twilight, 2026, Fastener’s Way Ground Floor

Contemporary artist Saffron Newey’s ground floor mural at Fastener’s Way, titled Mystical Merri Creek at Twilight, captures the quiet mood and changing light of the landscape. Referencing the work of Heidelberg School artist David Davies, soft colours and layered trees reflect a long tradition of artists painting these waterways.