Frank Hodgkinson mural - International Convention Centre

Actually I didn't go of course for the purpose of seeing the painting but the painting turned out to be more engaging than the seminar. The mural is enormous and occupies an entire wall of the huge space. 

The theme is the City 2 Surf marathon that is held in Sydney every  year, though it's not completely obvious from looking at the painting that this is the subject.

The ICC's theatre is located in the same space. Because of this the mural by Hodgkinson (had never heard his name mentioned prior to today) reminded me of similar art in the Sydney Opera House.

I don't mean that Hodgkinson has a mural in the Opera House, obviously not. If he had one there I would have known about him. Unfortunately as you can see from the above image the mural is sort of closed off by escalators.

Most of the work is blue (echoes of Whiteley), cream, yellow and black. There are strips of orange in places. But due to the presence of the equipment required to get people upstairs to the third floor, the mural sort of disappears.