About the Program

In 2019, internationally recognised mural artist David Lee Pereira collaborated with Carey students to design and create a large-scale mural at the entrance to the Senior School. Known for his public artworks on grain silos across regional Australia and large-scale murals throughout Europe, Pereira guided students through the creative process, resulting in a collaborative artwork that enhanced the Senior School exhibition space established the previous year.

About the Artist

David Lee Pereira is a practicing visual artist whose paintings, illustrations, large scale murals and public installations delve into the fluidity of gender, sexuality and identity exploring these through the recurring themes of dysphoria and interpersonal relationships. Influenced by the work of impressionist and surrealist artists Georgia O’Keefe, Dali and Munch, and paying homage to baroque ikebana and dutch still life, Pereira’s floral expressions range from beautifully brutal to joyous and intimate and are overflowing with symbolism and narrative.

"A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar.  Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth.  We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire."
-  Diane Ackerman,  A Natural History of the Senses, 1990, p. 13