Belgium artist ROA just hit another Australian city; he has completed a new mural in Sydney, following his executions in Fremantle, Perth and Midland.

In less than a month, ROA realized these four massive murals as a prosecution of his permanence in Australia. He has done this for the ongoing exhibition Paradox that will run until 13 January, 2012, at FORM Gallery in Perth.

A street artist whose work finds its natural space of expression in the city, ROA thinks the 'urban' dimension of reality is not the only one we should take into consideration.

'It's clear that people are estranged from nature and their roots,' ROA says.''These over-enlarged animals are a celebration of the animal world. I put my image out there and people can decide how to interpret it for themselves.'

Drawn in a style between naturalistic and caricatural, enormous kangaroos, wombats, possums and platypus populate old and derelict urban buildings and corners. There is a sort of act of re-appropriation of the space that human habitation subtracted from them. However, in their facial expressions and poses there is also a subtle feeling of resignation, as if the urban wasn't the space they belong to after all.

(ROA’s Western Australian visit and his Paradox exhibition at FORM Gallery Perth were co-presented by FORM and Skalitzers Contemporary Art).