This mural was commissioned by Woollahra Council as part of the NSW Government’s Streets as Shared Spaces Program. Mural artist Claire Foxton found inspiration in Boowambillee, the roughly shark-shaped island surrounded by the waters of Rose Bay. Now a peaceful National Park, the island was once home to a quarantine station.
The mural features aerial views of Rose Bay; the Shark Island Light; Rani, the first Sydney to Hobart yacht race winner which launched from Boowambillee/Shark Island on Boxing Day 1945; Sixspine Leatherjacket (Meuschenia freycineti); seaplane G-AEUB ‘Camilla’, that flew the inaugural Empire Airmail flight from Australia’s first international airport at Rose Bay on 4 August 1938; Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus); Port Jackson Shark (Heterodontus portusjacksoni); Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla); and three local endangered species, White’s Seahorse (Hippocampus whitei), the Nielsen Park She-Oak (Allocasuarina portuensis) and Seagrass (Posidonia Australis).
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