In 2020, Yarra City Council commissioned a new public artwork as part of an upgrade project at the Malcolm Graham Pavilion at Kevin Bartlett Reserve in Burnley.

Yarra based artist, Julia Gorman, created a dynamic artwork entitled Opening Lines for the new building. Buoyant and bulging with movement, Gorman's work traverses the length of the Pavilion walkway. A series of abstracted leg shapes jump, kick and run across the wall, activating and animating the space with bold, bright colours. Gorman says in her artist statement, 'The work gestures towards Utopian, modernist public art, like that of Miro, Matisse and Sainte-Phalle, but I was also inspired by Yarra's own Keith Haring murals, in the way that he repeats his personal iconography to fill a chosen space'. She continues ' I wanted to make an expansive, open and inclusive artwork. I drew legs from women playing footy, cricket and soccer, but tried to draw them in the least heroic, least literal way possible'. 

The existing facilities were upgraded to include female change rooms and amenities. The project funding comes from Yarra City Council and the State Government through its Female Friendly Facilities Fund. The commission is a result of Yarra's Public Art Policy 2015 - 2020 which ensures Council commits a percentage of the capital works budget for new community infrastructure projects.