Walker Street Public Domain is a major streetscape upgrade scheduled to be implemented later this year by developer Billbergia as part of a voluntary planning agreement with Council. This programme of works includes scope for artwork elements to be incorporated, and the appointed designers (URBIS) have highlighted key locations and streetscape elements where artwork could be incorporated.
Canada Bay Council is taking the opportunity to use the integrated artworks for this project to establish an art trail for Rhodes – a creative interpretation strategy and art trail that celebrates the extensive public art collection in the Rhodes peninsula. It is expected to be in an engaging and playful pictorial style to map the collection with distinctive motifs or icons for artworks and other cultural assets or points of interest.
Along with physical pieces such as feature informatic panels, wayfinding, pavement inserts and other surface treatments, a related site-specific artwork is also to feature in the new Rhodes Recreation Centre. The trail is to be accompanied by the development of online assets such as navigation and background information on specific artworks and points of interest that feature on the trail. This is intended to promote the artworks, raise their profile and tell their stories as well as promote active lifestyles with linkage to the wider Parramatta to Sydney Foreshore walking and cycling routes.
Artists are invited to express their interest with 3 candidates being short-listed to develop concepts for full commissioning later this year.
Image: Cartwheeling Youngster by Caroline Rothwell (2015), Rhodes Foreshore.
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