Sydney

The Art

According to the artist, the concept behind this wall was to promote planting trees to combat climate change using KNOxOUT paint, which uses sunlight to reduce noxious air pollutants, purifying the surrounding air. His idea was to bring the rainforest into the center of the city and have people reconnect with nature. He says, “everyone has a role to play in fighting climate change planting trees is an important way to help that.”

Elliott believes public art has a huge role in getting messages out to the community and that it is a responsibility of artists and projects like this to give voices to certain ideas or causes. He states, “working in this project helped me learn how important the rainforest is. Trees, animals, each thing is important and plays a big part.”

“The whole project was challenging, but also rewarding.” He continues, “being in the center of the city, working with different people, a big team to collaborate with, also a new type of paint, it was all challenging, but I'm really happy with the result.”