Well-known Australian artist Scott Marsh has had a newly completed mural of a police car on fire painted over by the police only 24-hours after completion.
Only yesterday, June 22nd, Australian street artists Scott Marsh posted a photograph of his latest mural: a police van lit up in flames.
Captioned with additional information on the anniversary of the death of T.J. Hickey, a 17-year-old Gamilaraay boy who was “thrown from his push bike and impaled upon on a fence in inner city Sydney, whilst being chased by two NSW police paddy wagons,” the mural stood as “a symbol of pain and frustration.”
Now, only 19 hours after the original mural was photographed, NSW police have painted over the fresh mural.
“Pretty disapointing to be sent a video of Police & @cityofsydney council painting over my mural this morning less than 24hrs after its completion,” Scott Marsh took to Instagram.
“It’s a confronting image, it’s is supposed to be,” he stated. “It was also painted with permission from the property owner and intentionally tucked away in a laneway where you wouldn’t see it unless it found you.”
Amidst frustration, Scott Marsh doesn’t understand why they would cover it, as “in a time when anti police sentiment is high I don’t see whats to be gained by censoring public artwork that you don’t agree with @nswpolice , other than reenforcing #ftp #acab sentiment… #redfern #blacklivesmatter.”
