Staff writer
SUSPENDED 22m above the ground in rain and against a driving wind on a cherry-picker, street artist Nadia Fisher, also known as Nardstar*, recently completed a huge Covid-19 awareness mural, “Ubuntu” in Philippi.
Along with assistant Bernard Greybe, it took the pair 15 days and around 120l of paint to complete the 360 square metre mural, as part of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa’s (OSF- SA’s) Covid-19 awareness campaign.
“OSF-SA is primarily a grant-making organisation and talking to our grantees and partners in the field, we noted that many people in the communities in which they worked were struggling to embrace the more formal messaging contained in traditional Covid-19 awareness campaigns,” says OSF-SA spokesperson Maxine Case.
“We decided to launch this mural project in selected…
