AT the corner of South Terrace and Nelson St in South Fremantle, two half-painted red-tailed black cockatoos wait patiently. 

But neighbours to the cockies have found themselves in a sticky strata situation which has forced their creator to pause her brushes. 

And when things get sticky with strata, a disagreement about something like artwork can get a little complicated.

• Work on the cockies has paused while the strata owners sort out their differences over what’s arty.

Paul Ryan owns the shop on the corner and commissioned environmental activist and street artist Lora Flora to decorate the big wall opposite Abhi’s Bakery.

But while his strata neighbours love Flora’s emerging cockies, they’re not so keen on a more bohemian mural which graces the front of the building on busy South Terrace.

They were hoping Mr Ryan would tone down the frontage before starting on the cockies, but he’s dug in, saying negotiations have taken a formal turn when he’d rather resolve things with a “friendly chat”.

“We’re a strata, lots of different people, lots of different opinions,” he said.

Meanwhile Flora says she’s been caught in the middle of the squabble, and had to stop work on the cockies after a heated exchange with Mr Ryan’s neighbours.

A conservation biologist by training, she can’t wait to get back to the mural, which she hopes will help raise awareness of the plight of the red-tailed black cockatoos, which are listed as “vulnerable”.

by CINDY CARTOJANO