General News
22 August, 2025
Making art with wplace
Local residents, alongside people around the globe, are creating art in an unexpected place — across the world map.
The website wplace, which turns a world map into a blank canvas, allows anyone to create art wherever they like one pixel at a time.
Hundreds of thousands of artworks exist across the big cities of the globe. From video games, anime, cartoons, and internet culture the map is dense with creative expression.
But that doesn’t mean the Central Goldfields Shire has missed out on the fun.
Since its launch on July 21, Maryborough and district has seen some of its residents create works of pixel art ranging from their favourite characters to appreciating popular local businesses.
From the Nintendo character Daisy in Daisy Hill, to Pokémon all over the shire, students pride in local schools, or just putting a love heart over their much-loved Dunolly Bakery — it’s a diversity which reflects that of its creator’s interests.
Despite the arts small size the artworks represent a significant time commitment.
Users begin with a limited pool of pixels which replenish one at a time every 30 seconds.
It means larger artworks, such as Jester from Critical Role’s Dungeons and Dragons game, represent hours of work across many days.
The website is based on r/place, a collaborative project hosted on Reddit and conceived by Josh Wardle, who developed the viral word-based game Wordle, however wplace is the creation of Murilo Matsubara.