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BAYSWATER library is set to be adorned with bunny rabbits and a doe-eyed child.

Local artist Namo Osaki wants to transform the tired-looking library wall overlooking the kids playground in Bert Wright Park with a manga-style mural. Osaki was awarded a grant last year to undertake a community art project that would “add vibrancy” to Bayswater.

As part of the project, Osaki will get kids to colour in characters that will appear on the mural at the library’s Evening in the park on March 6.

Cr Michelle Sutherland, who pushed for the council to set aside $80,000 for urban art, is all for bringing a slice of Japan to King William Street.

“I was on holiday in Queensland recently and I saw how they had successfully transformed tatty-looking buildings with murals and art,” she says.