Fitzroy’s Favourite Unofficial Documentarian, Pol The Painter

Pol McMahon, aka Pol the Painter, is Fitzroy’s unofficial documentarian, historian, and passionate storyteller.
For more than 30 years, the self-taught artist has chronicled Melbourne’s oldest suburb through his observational artworks, usually created in Pol’s apartment — located in the Atherton Gardens public housing estate — or en plein air on the streets below.
Here, he tells his story.

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