Beautiful Beaumont Doors — The Wall Station

Mural art to beautify urban areas. community spaces and help prevent vandalism.

Beautiful Beamont Doors

Throughout 2023, Newcastle artists are working with business owners to beautify their vandalised doorways with vibrant murals along Beaumont Street in Hamilton. The artworks are refreshing the iconic shopping strip and adding colour and character to the shopfronts.

Ashley Joy Art ~ Jade Burton ~ KEOB ~ Ruby Rickard ~ Clare Whelk ~ Melody Suranyi ~ Bridie Watt ~ Kate Teal-Spicer ~ Squidless Studios ~ Clare O’Hara

Clare Whelk @ Lord's Coffee & Associates

Squidless Studios @ Gallery X Barbershop

Kate Teal-Spicer @ The Neighbourhood Barber & Salon

Urban beautification

Supported by City of Newcastle’s Special Business Rate Grant and the Hamilton Business Improvement Association, our Beautiful Beaumont Doors initiative successfully delivered eleven murals on vandalised doorways and shop fronts.

Pubilc art has been proven to help deter vandalism and graffiti in urban areas, to activate spaces and make them feel safer. Working with local artists, we curated and selected artists whose style would work to elevate and support each unique business brand.

Artist’s were given creative briefs and in turn provided a design sketch to the business owner prior to the mural painting day. The murals were installed on Saturday 20 May and 25 November 2023 with artists painting all the way down the main street of the shopping precinct.

Clare Whelk

Clare is a talented First Nations artist whose figurative work has an Australian flora and fauna focus.
Kate Teal-Spicer

Freelance artist, designer, writer and filmmaker Kate Teal-Spicer often works with acrylics on canvas to create vibrant abstract works.
Squidless Studios

Also known as Maddison Battams, Squidless Studios is a one woman show whose illustrative and quirky style spans across artworks, murals, tattoos, posters and merchandise.
Clare O'Hara

Clare brightens peoples’ lives with colourful vibrant abstract art – paired with metallic accents, resin work and experimental textures – inspired by animals (particularly birds) and nature. 
Ruby Rickard

Description goes hereRuby is a self taught artist who specialises in acrylic painting and experimental mixed media designs, drawing inspiration from the picturesque landscapes of my hometown and the abundance of raw beauty on the coastlines of Australia.
Melody Suranyi

Melody loves bright colours and funky designs and she takes inspiration from a combination of modern and ancient art.
Ashley Joy Art

Meet Ashley Joy, a self-taught artist evolved from Newcastle/Mulubinba. Her love for fluorescent colours and glow paint sets her apart. Ashley's art is not just a reflection of her eye for colour and dedication to create, but also of her deep love for life and all its colours. Her paintings are a celebration of the beauty and joy that can be found in even the darkest of places.
KEOB

KEOB is a local Artist, Father and Daydreamer with a passion for all things Art, Culture and Country creating one off artworks, working closely with community helping to create vibrant large scale murals and street art also working along side family mentoring the next generation of artists running workshops and sharing as much as possible with anybody willing to listen.
Jade Burton

Jade Burton (Turbz) is an emerging artist from the NSW Central Coast. Using mixed mediums, Burton uses her practice to fall into a flow state as she aims to re-imagine what is. Exploring different styles of abstraction and hyper- detail, inspired by Australia’s rich and diverse environment, Jade aims to create vibrant and whacky works.
Bridie Watt

Painting and drawing are fundamental to Bridie’s practice. She’s equally at home undertaking performance art and collaborative installations. Naturally occurring forms found in beautiful and ordinary spaces are her inspiration.