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MARTIN WILLS’ latest intergalactic creation is a giant mural on the side of the Beaufort Street Laundromat.

The artist says he loves “big, well-crafted universes that can swallow imaginations entirely” and cites Terminator 2 and Star Trek: The Next Generation as influences.

Wills studied design and creative advertising at Curtin Uni and then did some some freelance design and illustration work, but claims he is essentially a “low-brow contemporary artist”.

Last year a Mt Lawley resident asked Wills to paint an alien mural on his back wall, after graffiti artists kept tagging his property.

Wills agreed to do the mural in John Marks Lane for free, with the pair splitting the cost of the painting materials.

He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Tricking The Depths at Bivouac Bar in Northbridge.

by STEPHEN POLLOCK