The City of Yarra has received a $40,000 Creative Victoria grant towards public artworks to celebrate Australian music, including a special tribute to Richmond music legend Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum AM.
A larger-than-life statue of Aussie entertainment icon Ian `Molly’ Meldrum has been unveiled at Richmond’s Wangaratta Street Park. It stands alongside a new Wall of Music mural by artist 23rd Key as part of Yarra Council’s revamp of the park.
Yarra City Council received a grant through the Department of Justice and Regulation’s Graffiti Prevention Grants 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 at 136 Gertrude Street, to focus on Aboriginal identity and culture in Fitzroy and highlight the history and significance of Gertrude Street, the building and the area for the Aboriginal community.
The Stolen Generations Marker, Remember Me, reflects the community’s wish to create a permanent tribute to the Stolen Generations and their families; a place of reflection and respectful commemoration. Integral to this is the surrounding garden with plants local to the area that have been re-introduced into the setting.
E_SCAPE / REAL_TY / PERFEC_ / HOL_DAY is a four-part visual poem consisting of words that are composed of letter tiles from the popular board game Scrabble.
This large format photographic series by artist David Ashley Kerr began with the use of a visual device called the Rückenfigur, or ‘Back Figure,’ allowing the viewer an unhindered outlook toward a landscape, free from the gaze of the lone human subject placed within it.
Each image in this series portrays an assemblage of windblown artificial flowers encountered and collected by artist Irene Finkelde on her frequent walks around the old iron walls of the Melbourne General Cemetery.
In ‘Screen / Time’, plexiglass acts as a deteriorating membrane, a clouded lens. Hopkins’ photographs capture the interiors of cemetery votive boxes taken through their scratched plexiglass screens.
Inspired by the touching pool often found at aquariums and the sensorial connections with nature they elicit, this series speaks to the interconnectedness of bodies and environments as well as the conflicted and estranged relationship we have with the more-than-human world.
In 2021, Alphington Community Centre ran an outside gallery on the fence featuring 10 artists including painters, photographers, and poets. This street gallery proved a wonderful way for the local community to keep connected during lockdowns. Still.Life is the follow up project, a living 3D artwork which continues to provide a focal point for the local community.
Drop Zone by Troy Innocent, Joel Collins, Indae Hwang and Yun Tae Nam was one of three public art works installed in Yarra, in 2011, under the banner of The Environmental Public Arts Project which responded to key features of Council's Environment Strategy: Towards Local Sustainability 2008-2020.
We have made some exciting changes along Rose Street in Fitzroy, including two new public artworks, seating, planters growing native species and bike pump stations.
'How I live now' is a community art project coordinated by Clifton Hill based visual artist Suyin Lam supported by a Creative Community Covid-19 Quick Response Grant.
The City of Yarra has received a $40,000 Creative Victoria grant towards public artworks to celebrate Australian music, including a special tribute to Richmond music legend Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum AM.
A larger-than-life statue of Aussie entertainment icon Ian `Molly’ Meldrum has been unveiled at Richmond’s Wangaratta Street Park. It stands alongside a new Wall of Music mural by artist 23rd Key as part of Yarra Council’s revamp of the park.
Yarra City Council received a grant through the Department of Justice and Regulation’s Graffiti Prevention Grants 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 at 136 Gertrude Street, to focus on Aboriginal identity and culture in Fitzroy and highlight the history and significance of Gertrude Street, the building and the area for the Aboriginal community.
The Stolen Generations Marker, Remember Me, reflects the community’s wish to create a permanent tribute to the Stolen Generations and their families; a place of reflection and respectful commemoration. Integral to this is the surrounding garden with plants local to the area that have been re-introduced into the setting.
E_SCAPE / REAL_TY / PERFEC_ / HOL_DAY is a four-part visual poem consisting of words that are composed of letter tiles from the popular board game Scrabble.
This large format photographic series by artist David Ashley Kerr began with the use of a visual device called the Rückenfigur, or ‘Back Figure,’ allowing the viewer an unhindered outlook toward a landscape, free from the gaze of the lone human subject placed within it.
Each image in this series portrays an assemblage of windblown artificial flowers encountered and collected by artist Irene Finkelde on her frequent walks around the old iron walls of the Melbourne General Cemetery.
In ‘Screen / Time’, plexiglass acts as a deteriorating membrane, a clouded lens. Hopkins’ photographs capture the interiors of cemetery votive boxes taken through their scratched plexiglass screens.
Inspired by the touching pool often found at aquariums and the sensorial connections with nature they elicit, this series speaks to the interconnectedness of bodies and environments as well as the conflicted and estranged relationship we have with the more-than-human world.
In 2021, Alphington Community Centre ran an outside gallery on the fence featuring 10 artists including painters, photographers, and poets. This street gallery proved a wonderful way for the local community to keep connected during lockdowns. Still.Life is the follow up project, a living 3D artwork which continues to provide a focal point for the local community.
Drop Zone by Troy Innocent, Joel Collins, Indae Hwang and Yun Tae Nam was one of three public art works installed in Yarra, in 2011, under the banner of The Environmental Public Arts Project which responded to key features of Council's Environment Strategy: Towards Local Sustainability 2008-2020.
We have made some exciting changes along Rose Street in Fitzroy, including two new public artworks, seating, planters growing native species and bike pump stations.
'How I live now' is a community art project coordinated by Clifton Hill based visual artist Suyin Lam supported by a Creative Community Covid-19 Quick Response Grant.