By reconstructing the built environment through a First Peoples lens, Kent Morris reveals the continuing presence and patterns of Aboriginal history, culture and knowledge in the contemporary Australian landscape, despite ongoing colonial interventions in the physical and political environments.

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RE-POSITIONING by Moorina Bonini is a site-specific work that engages both the unceded Country and site of the Substation.

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Adja Country ARt is an artistic exploration through Narungga Country. Following four totems, the artwork has been created to allow viewers the ability to travel and to develop or maintain a connection to Country when sometimes for many reasons they cannot.

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This 2022 artwork Cache by Jahkarli Romanis features recurring images of Pitta Pitta and a portrait of the artist's great-grandmother flick across Google Earth’s representation of Country.

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Ros Sultan is an Eastern Arrernte and Gurindji woman who uses ink; texta pens; acrylic paints; and finely ground earth that resembles pigment or ochre to create intricate and highly detailed images.

For this exhibition, entitled jarrawujarrawuwarra, meaning ‘moving light’ in Gurindji language, Sultan’s small, detailed drawings are projected at a momentous scale. The light beams life into the lines, shapes, curves and colours of each delicately arranged composition creating movement as they dance across the park.

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The earthworm is one of the hardest working and most unrecognised members of our biotic community. It is time to honour this unsung hero.

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If you’ve visited or travelled past Fitzroy Swimming Pool in the last 5 years, you’ll be familiar with the eye-catching mural, Pool Parade by Stephen Baker.

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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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Yarra City Council's Annual Grants provide financial and in-kind support for community initiatives and projects running in 2018. Through this program, we will invest over $850,000 in programs which support and enrich the Yarra community.

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The Yarra Youth Services Artist in Residence program gives early-career artists aged between 20 and 25 years a free studio space to develop their practice in return for encouraging the next generation of young artists.

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The City of Yarra values the creativity that exists in our city and we want to make sure it continues to be an essential part of our neighbourhoods into the future. In a rapidly changing landscape, we recognised the need to take action to keep creative spaces available and affordable.

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Bus Projects is excited to call for proposals for the 2020-21 program! This is the inaugural open call for the new venue at the Collingwood Arts Precinct (CAP). This move will allow Bus to drastically improve the way they support artists and engage with communities by removing rental fees paid by exhibiting artists.

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Transform fashion waste into wearable art and parade it down a runway at Fast Fashun 2.0 2.0: a series of free interactive, educational fashion shows and upcycling sessions.

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Last night Yarra Councillors renewed their commitment to preventing racism and injustice faced by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

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We’re reviewing our Arts and Culture grants program to ensure it continues to be accessible, impactful and meet the needs of our diverse communities. We also want to make sure these grants continue to support the creative and social impact these exhibitions, events or programs can provide the wider Yarra community

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Yarra’s latest Pick Me Up Guide is now available and features events from July to December 2019. Pick Me Up is your guide to arts, culture and exciting events in the City of Yarra.

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Gertrude Street Projection Festival Program Announced!

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Yarra City Arts is calling for artists who are experienced in creating figurative bronze sculptures to be considered for this project.

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Earth, Body and Soul is a series of collaborations with dear friends and family. Here nature acts as both content and context. In this series, characters inhabit the landscape wearing sculptures they created in collaboration with the artist. The spaces these works exist in are undeniably interwoven within the work itself. Spaces shapeshift us, tell stories and unfold histories, as well as having the ability to become transformed through artistic practices.

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