The City of Yarra has a diverse range of contemporary, heritage and public art.
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Lennox Street Mural
Created by artist Be Free, the Lennox Street Mural depicts a bamboo forest. -
Keith Haring Mural
This heritage-listed mural on Johnston Street in Collingwood was painted by the late New York artist Keith Haring in 1984. -
Richmond Station Whale Mural
The Richmond Station Whale Mural Project was completed in early March 2013. The approximately 40 metre long mural took five days on site to paint. -
Gitmo Bay Souvenirs. Closing Down Sale, All Stock Must Go!
Gitmo Bay Souvenirs. Closing Down Sale, All Stock Must Go! is part of a series looking at ‘Gitmo Bay’. It is imagining how it might be if you were to go there as a tourist and take home a souvenir. -
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The Promised Land - Moving
The Promised Land – Moving was photographed on the banks of the Yarra River. The visual metaphors of water, shore and an unfinished boat reference themes of migration and settlement. -
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Chinese Restaurant Series: The Chef
In the Chinese Restaurant Series, Bronek Kozka explore his own remembered moments of those family meals. Chinese Restaurant Series: The Chef - photograph – 95 x 95cm unframed (2011). -
Henry Walker Mayor
In 1889, Tom Roberts produced a ceremonial yet elegant portrait of Henry Walker, Mayor of Collingwood, which is now one of the most prized and celebrated works in Council’s Art & Heritage Collection. -
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This is No Rose Garden (triptych)
This triptych utilises domestic materials such as heritage coloured house paint, bitumen paint and domestic household bleach. -
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Record Keepers - 2
Record Keepers grew out of artist Karen Casey’s participation in ‘Dufkyen: The Aboriginal Print Portfolio’, commissioned by the Kingdom of the Netherlands to commemorate 400 years of Dutch contact with Australia. -
Le città continue
Angela Cavalieri’s practice is centred on the art of writing; she employs literary, religious and historical narratives where selected texts eventually manifest as image. -
Victoria Park Public Artworks
Victoria Park, has been transformed into a major community recreation space. The intention of the public artworks was to recognise the park’s important history and provide interesting and educational focal points for park visitors. -
We love you back
We Love You Back appears to encircle the Abbotsford/Collingwood Maternal Health Care Centre with a crocheted baby blanket, representing the love and appreciation of generations of local families who have relied on maternal health nurses for practical advice and reassurance. -
All Hail the Campaigners the Nurses the Mothers
Over 100 paste-up artworks across the municipality bring back the women involved in the early years of the early City of Yarra maternal health service, as tiny spectral figures visiting the centres of today, celebrating the ground-breaking work of providing the first ‘Baby Health Centre’ in Victoria. -
All Hail Sister Muriel Peck
This large scale image transforms a hand-coloured photocopy into a vision of Sister Muriel Peck, as a guardian spirit for the City of Yarra Maternal and Child Health Service.