WARRNAMBOOL artist Jimmi Buscombe is having a winning year.
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The former chef took out the 2017 Warrnibald Prize, and now he will paint his life-like drawings of a yellow-tailed black cockatoo onto a Warrnambool laneway.
Buscombe’s idea to help revitalise the city’s CBD was voted the best at the first Beers and Ideas event.
Beers and Ideas is about creating placemaking ideas in Warrnambool to invigorate a space. It was initiated by designer Sinead Murphy, and was held at her Super Kawaii studio.
Four participants pitched their ideas and a crowd of about 80 people voted for their favourite.
Entry was $10 to the event and included a beer. Buscombe took home the entrance fee, which was matched by the Warrnambool City Council, to complete his artwork.
“In the background you will be able to see the bricks, it will be really rustic and geometric,” he said. “Then in the foreground there will be the hyper-realism of the birds.”
He said the birds came to the south-west in their hundreds.
He said he would like to collaborate with an indigenous leader to do a piece of writing to accompany the artwork about the dreamtime symbology of the birds.
He said he would also collaborate with another pitcher on the night, artist gareth Colliton, to create a phosphorescent painted background of the sky.