We are now accepting applications for the 2023 Artist in Residence through the Room to Create Program.

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If you work in the arts, entertainment or media industries, what impact has COVID-19 had on you? Share your experience via one of these arts and creative sector surveys.

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Womens Art Register Wikipedia Edit a Thon 2024

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We are currently reviewing Yarra’s Arts and Heritage Collection Management Policy to see how effectively they support Council’s vision. Consultation with the Yarra community is an essential part of that review. Have your say by completing our brief survey. Your short and long-form answers will form a critical component of our research and inform our recommendations.

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Melbourne-based street-artist, Baby Guerrilla, has transformed the Church Street side of the Richmond Library wall into a large bookshelf. Stacked with a broad range of publications, the shelves run along the length of the building. Engaged in various activities, animals and fictional characters weave their way through the books, attesting to the infinite possibilities that libraries offer.

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We offer many opportunities for artists - including ways in which they can develop their work, show their work and make creative use of our venues.

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As part of Yarra’s revitalisation works to Wangaratta Street Park, located in Richmond behind the Corner Hotel, a larger-than-life bronze statue of local music identity Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum AM stands with his beloved dog Ziggy by his side. Among many things, Molly is celebrated for his role as the presenter of Countdown which aired from 1974―1987.

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Since 2011, Yarra has been presenting a projection program, formally at the Bob Rose Stand at the former home of the Collingwood Football club, then in 2016 relocting to Peel Street Park in Collingwood, for a very popular series of projections over the winter months.

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The Edinburgh Gardens Plinth Program has been showcasing the work of local artists since 2015. The plinth is located within a garden bed towards the centre of the iconic Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North. 

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Situated at the intersection of three major arterial flows – a railway, a freeway and the Birrarung river, the Mary Rogers pavilion is a place where people are drawn together through movement. The artwork Momentum draws on the coalescing flows of traffic, sound, air, time, water, and human kinetic energy, mapped together into a horizon of oscillating lines.

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 Lucy Beattie Hughes is an Art Curator and Artist. Hughes' creative practice engages with the intersections of photography, form, material, abstraction and space.

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STUDIO is the collaborative practice of Tamsen Hopkinson and Woody McDonald, producing video interviews, live music events, contemporary art exhibitions, radio and print resources.

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The romantic notion of the eucalyptus tree celebrates a sense of something that is uniquely Australian.  Its majestic and iconic image provides a sense of self-identity and connection to country for Narelle Cridland; an Australian expat with Indigenous heritage, now living in Hong Kong. The representation of the gum tree provides a cultural vessel that Cridland uses as a symbol to explore identity.  

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Kyoko Imazu

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The Myth of Progress by Jeremy Blincoe

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Siri Hayes 'Loading' in the Carlton Library Light Boxes.

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Kirsten Lyttle in the Carlton Library Light Boxes.

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These four photographs by artist Mathilde Magnée are pictures which unfold in an organic way following a principal similar to that of isomer. The basic formula of this body of work resides in its artistic constraints, of which artificial light and the absence of context are the main points of departure.

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Malcolm McKinnon's Smith & Gertrude (Look Both Ways) is a simple but carefully crafted exercise in time-travel. The two minute, looping video work combines contemporary and historical film, juxtaposing similar locations and parallel patterns of movement. The work plays with conventions of old-fashioned film projection, employing various film and video textures and shifts of film speed and framing. In doing so, it presents multiple layers of history in perpetual motion. If there’s an implicit message in this work, it’s probably this: Look both ways. Smith & Gertrude (Look Both Ways) is part of the Yarra City Arts Peel Street Park Projection Program.

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OKHA/Windows is part of Elizaveta Maltseva’s research into migrant melancholia and cultural artefacts. Exploring themes of identity and performativity, she uses her own family’s migration from Russia in the 1990s as both a case study and point of departure for her visual material.

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