Maliyan is the Wiradjuri word for Wedged-tailed Eagle, a local totem for both women and men, and a local football team. Maliyan was chosen through a series of community consultations, drawn and designed as a mural for approval before painting. Community was also invited to paint with the Fishdog team in supervised on-site workshops.

Why design and paint in this mosaic style?

The Maliyan is dark russet-brown on its outer feathers, with light brown and cream under its wings. External appearances, as science tells us, do not always reflect true form or purpose. We say someone may be green with jealousy, or blue with sadness, perhaps in the pink of good health. Of course they are not these colours in appearance, rather the colour is evocative of what’s going on within.

Imagine being Maliyan, of rising on a thermal air current, of scanning the ground way below with crisp focussed vision, and with the flick if the wedge-tail, plummeting downward as fast as a bullet train. These are not brown feelings. If the sensation of being Maliyan is coloured, it is likely to be a multi-faceted, richly hued experience.

An impression of otherness- what we see, is not how we be. Living, doing, creating, has many more inner shades than what is obvious on the outside.