Artist, Jarrad Martyn, chose to explore early settler life in East Fremantle. Imagine, if you will, the self-sufficiency of that time - catching fish, gathering produce, machinery modification, working in the slaughterhouse once located here in the centre of Plympton.

A young settler is depicted in the processes of cleaning some freshly caught fish in his outhouse. A nursery can be seen through the window, with a number of freshly gathered onions in the settlers rucksack. Several chickens are situated across the composition, they would have been purchased from the old slaughterhouse which was located in the centre of Plympton, where George Street now is. A prawning throw net, a handline, a small fishing pole and an eel trap used by the Whadjuk Noongar first nations people are positioned leaning together to reference the important role that fishing spots played around the foreshore area in gathering food. Bags of flour, likely purchased from the Fremantle Store House, alongside various tools and a tool box. Fixing and modifying parts of machinery sourced from Britain was of vital importance.

The mural has a slight sepia tinge to suggest the passing of time, as if we are looking back on the scene. The light entering the space from the window is amplified to harness the uniqueness of Australian light, which many settlers described.

This mural, located on the corner of George and Hubble Streets, was commissioned by the Town of East Fremantle in 2018.