This mural celebrates Annette Kellerman, the Marrickville-born swimming icon who broke barriers in the 1900s by promoting women's one-piece swimsuits, reshaping women's sportswear. Also an actress, one of her film posters is recreated here.
Annette Kellerman, born in Marrickville in 1886, became an international swimming champion in the early 1900's, and was the first to promote a one-piece swimsuit for women. She starred in many movies, sadly all copies of "What Women Love", 1920, have been lost.
I want to swim and I can't swim wearing more stuff than you hang on a clothesline.
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