Peeking above the lacy bodice of a white wedding gown is a smattering of curly chest hairs; above that, the beaming, glowing face of Tony Abbott as the bride of Tony Abbott.

It’s the latest mural from Australian street artist Scottie Marsh, which is getting its final touches on a massive wall in Redfern today.

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Tom Tilley popped down to see Scott in action.

"I’m putting a little bit of lippy and eye shadow on the bride," Scott told Hack.

"I think a nice bouquet of Australian natives would be Tony’s choice on his special day, so that’s what I’ve gone with."

Scott started painting the mural over the weekend, and says he was inspired to make a statement about same-sex marriage after former Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged Australians to "protect the family" with their vote in the same-sex marriage postal survey.

"When Tony Abbott released that video promoting the No vote, you could almost hear the whole country going, ‘What the f**k’.

"I was hoping to find a wall in Manly to do [the mural] in his electorate. But unfortunately that was a lot harder to find. A lot of people generously offered up walls but they were a bit too small to do anything that had a bigger impact.

"So I’m here in Redfern, it’s been an awesome couple of days painting. I’ve been getting great responses from people, especially yesterday - I was just listening to people laugh and screech all day."

What does Tony think?

Subjects of Scott Marsh’s work have been known to take notice. Like the mural Scott painted of former NSW Premier Mike Baird, who reportedly took a selfie with the work; and Marsh’s mural of Kanye West kissing Kanye West - who is believed to have paid $100,000 to have it removed.

Hack contacted Tony Abbott for a response on Scott Marsh’s work. He was unavailable to comment.

Tony Abbott's sister, City of Sydney councillor Christine Forster, was available to react to the artwork. Christine, who is advocating for the Yes vote, told Hack the piece was a "great example of modern street art."

"I haven’t seen it in person, I’ve only seen it on facebook. It certainly looks to be a striking artwork there’s no doubt about that," Christine said.

"I don’t think that Tony would be upset about it. He’s got a very thick skin. It’s a satirical piece. Good on the artist for putting it up there. It’s in my electorate in the City of Sydney and the City of Sydney is very keen to promote street art.

"I had to double take to look at the bride, I have to say. I think it’s a good piece, of course public art is subjective."

Scott Marsh reckons Tony Abbott might not be as pissed off with it as you’d think.

Personally if there’s one thing that Tony Abbott’s been shown to love, it’s Tony Abbott.

"So two giant pictures of Tony Abbott might not have the response you think he will, he might actually love it and come get a selfie with it.”

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"Overwhelmingly positive"

Scott says while he’s been painting the mural he’s received “overwhelmingly” positive responses from locals and passers-by.

"But the first day when I was here, there was a bloke having coffee and we were talking about graffiti and painting murals and what it was about, I kind of explained and he got real angry and started launching into you know conspiracies into how this Yes vote is the beginning of the end of the world.

"There was him and another guy who was convinced I was about to be condemned to hell. He was very polite, he gave me a bible and told me which chapters I needed to read to keep my ticket to heaven.

"Other than that there’s been a few people coming past screaming a few rude things. One guy parked across the road and started screaming what a disgrace it was and then drove off.

"But for the most part, out of probably a thousand people have said something in the past couple of days, they’re the only people that have said something negative."

What mural's next?

Scott lets us take a photo of him - as long as his face isn’t showing.

"No I am not the Banksy of Australia," Scott says, "My background is in illegal graffiti and that’s where I started. Having people recognise me without knowing who they are really kind of creeps me out a bit. So I just like to keep my face anon."

As for his next mural, he’s hoping to follow up his current work with another one inspired by the former Prime Minister.

"I do have another concept for another Tony Abbott mural. So I am still looking for a wall in Manly. So if anyone in Manly has a similar size wall i can paint, hit me up on instagram or my email.

"It’ll be a surprise. But it’ll be f***ing funny."