Redback Spiderman, Queen Street Melbourne

Inspired by my work at Queen’s Place as a cleaner. Queen’s Place has 80 floors, I clean the building amenities up to level 52, so I get a good view of the city, anyway I was looking out of the window and the thought of Marvel’s ‘Spiderman’ crossed my mind, so I thought, hmmm!! Melbourne needs an Australian one,” so I decided to put an Aussie version, namely, ‘Redback Spiderman’ on the window outside.

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Ken McKean is an Australian artist and has been practicing art for close to 30 years.
His work has changed over the years from early days where he worked in watercolour and pencil drawing inspired by his mother and Grandmother. Later he became interested in Surrealism. Living in the bush for some time Ken was inspired by nature and painted a lot of bush scenes. Ken also worked with renowned artist Brian Dunlop for 12 months where he learnt some useful techniques in oil painting. Over the years he has done many collaborations with his wife Fiona Clarke, (an Aboriginal artist) his wife. They work as a team particularly in public arts. Currently Ken is enjoying enjoy playing with the imagination of the millions of years of history. This lies hidden in the faces of the natural rock walls, waterfalls and images from nature. Ken currently lives in Sunshine with his wife and daughter and work from their studio at the Hunt Club. Ken is also working on a major public art project in Melbourne will tell you more soon.