The City of Yarra has a diverse range of contemporary, heritage and public art.
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Howl Your Troubles
Howl Your Troubles is part of Thompson's self-portrait series Native Instinct. This work was produced while Thompson was an artist in residence at the Australia Council for the Arts Greene Street Studio in Manhattan. -
Wall of Music
Wall of Music is a mural which spans almost 40 meters wide, designed by stencil artist 23rd Key. The Wall of Music mural depicts a sea of hands of adoring music fans at the Corner Hotel, flanked by gig posters. -
Molly
As part of Yarra’s revitalisation works to Wangaratta Street Park, located behind the Corner Hotel, a permanent tribute to local music identity Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum AM has been installed. Created by Australian sculptor Louis Laumen and fabricated by Meridian Foundry in Fitzroy, the larger-than-life-sized bronze statue was made to sit in the context of a celebration of Australian music. -
You, We, They, Me
This artwork by Kiron Robinson, on permanent display in the Bargoonga Nganjin courtyard garden, was commissioned by Yarra Council as part of the 1% towards intergrated art scheme for new capital building projects over 1 million dollars. -
Celebration Dreaming
Yarra City Council received a grant through the Department of Justice and Regulation’s Graffiti Prevention Grants 2016-2017 program to commission a Victorian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist to create a meaningful and inspiring artwork across the entire eastern wall of the Charcoal Lane building to focus on Aboriginal identity and culture in Fitzroy and highlight the history and significance of Gertrude Street, this building and this area for the Aboriginal community. -
Pressed for Time
Pressed for Time is part of an ongoing exploration of the absence of women from history, in this case, of Chinese women during the Australian Gold rushes. A detailed study of the period was undertaken, however the women could equally originate from any place or time, including the present. -
Iteration Silver Field
In Iteration Silver Field, the exploration of colour and low tonality with quiet, muted, rhythmic tonal shifts of a contemplative nature and the broken moment of pattern call for reflection, allowing the many layers to unfold and reveal themselves. -
Pool Parade
This mural was produced by local artist Stephen Baker as a ‘gift’ to the City of Yarra as part of Council’s Christmas Program. It is located on the Fitzroy Swimming Pool building on Alexandra Parade in Fitzroy. -
Carlton Library Light Boxes
The Light Box installation is located on the south wall of the Carlton Library, along Newry Street near the junction of Rathdowne Street, North Carlton. -
Dark was the night
DARK WAS THE NIGHT was produced during Laith McGregor’s time as the Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Printmaking Fellow. -
Red running tiger
Red Running Tiger (Thylacine) was commissioned as one of three artworks by the City of Richmond for the Urban Arts Square project in 1993. -
Sickness i, ii & iii
Sickness is a new and growing body of work by Steaphan Paton that sits in dialogue with artist Tony Clark’s famous ‘Sections from Clark’s Myriorama’ series. -
Mother and Daughter
Mother and Daughter was commissioned as one of three artworks by the City of Richmond as part of an Urban Arts Square project in 1993. -
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Fitzroy Bowls 150 Years Memorial Wall
This colourful mural adorns the walls of the Fitzroy Victoria Bowling & Sports Club in North Fitzroy. -
Walnut Street Road Mural
This road mural by artist Tom Civil is located along Walnut Street, Cremorne. The road mural identifies the road as a ‘Shared Zone’, where pedestrians occupy the street in conjunction with motorists. -
From Siberia to the Kimberley
To mark its 30th Anniversary in 2012, Australian Print Workshop in Fitzroy commissioned six leading Australian Artists to collaborate with their Printers to produce an ambitious new suite of work in the print medium. -
Falé Machina
Born in New Zealand in 1976 to a Tongan father, Samuel Tupou’s signature is his vivid colour, pop sensibility, industrial materials and street art techniques combined with patterns of traditional Tongan Tapa designs. -
Red Bricks
This photograph is from an ongoing body of work titled Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them by artist Jesse Marlow. -
Wall painting for entrance
The three huge colourful shapes of Wall painting for entrance use symmetry, decoration and distortion to create unfamiliar objects that appear to bulge out of, or float away from, the wall.