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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Simon McCarthy

Vandalised mural on Stewart Avenue replaced by a familiar face in Adnate's signature style

Artist Matt Last has recreated one of his most recognisable local works after his Newcastle Interchange mural was damaged by vandals last week. Picture by Simon McCarthy

A familiar face has returned to Stewart Avenue years after it disappeared from the arterial street's landscape when it was covered and ultimately demolished as part of the Stella Apartment tower build.

The striking gaze of artist Matt Last's (better known as Adnate) anonymous Indigenous boy that once adorned a wall a few doors down from the artist's more recent and sprawling installation called Thirrilmun near the Newcastle Interchange, has been resurrected in a new and characteristically epic mural after Thirrilmun was defaced by vandals last week.

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