Lucinda Penn (LCND) mural at airport a high-profile celebration of Adelaide as Australia's first national park city
Artist Lucinda Penn (LCND) and her mural at Adelaide Airport celebrating Adelaide as a national park city and (below) another of her murals, Hokey Pokey, on the main street of Stirling in the Adelaide Hills.
A high-profile mural by artist Lucinda Penn (also known as LCND), celebrating Adelaide becoming a national park city was unveiled in 2022 at Adelaide Airport’s Gate 18.
Penn's mural explores South Australia's special connection to wildlife and nature, as showcased in a campaign spearheaded by Green Adelaide. In 2021, Adelaide became the first Australian city to be declared a national park city, and only the second globally after London.
Penn said the mural represented Adelaide “in an abstract and colourful way from the hills to the sea, from a vision of platypus in the Torrens, to our iconic hills landscape, as well as parks and wineries and the Mall's Balls”.
Green Adelaide presiding member professor Chris Daniels said that the mural’s launch was a great way to build awareness about the movement to improve liveability in Greater Adelaide by connecting people with nature through everyday actions: “Having the Adelaide national park city artwork painted as a mural at a venue as prominent as Adelaide Airport, is a major coup for promoting Greater Adelaide globally as a city that connects people with each other and nature – for everyone, everywhere, everyday!”
Adelaide Airport executive general manager for people, culture and terminals, Dermot O’Neill, said: “The great thing is our passengers can view this wonderful mural in recognition of Adelaide becoming a national park city, and at the same time enjoy the sweeping views from our gate lounges out over the green canopy of our city and the Adelaide Hills, which reinforces this achievement.”
Lucinda Penn, who gained a bachelor’s degree in design from the University of South Australia, works in many different mediums such as murals, canvas and digital media. He other murals included Hokey Pokey on the main street of Stirling in the Adelaide Hills, and inside A Mother’s Milk on Unley Road in the suburb of Unley.
