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Sculpture 'Frida's Carload' by artist Tony Woodward takes pride of place outside the Moonah Arts Centre

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A mosaic green car with five figures sitting in it.
Frida's Carload which sits outside the Moonah Arts Centre.(ABC Radio Hobart: Georgie Burgess)

Frida's Carload was commissioned to celebrate the re-development on the Moonah Arts Centre in 1999.

The piece features acclaimed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and some of her influences; exhiled communist leader Leon Trotsky, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Spanish poet Garcia Lorca, and Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.

Reporter Georgie Burgess spoke to Margaret Woodward, who is the sister of artist of the sculpture Tony Woodward, about the piece as she was repairing it.

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Moonah, Contemporary Art, Street Art
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