PUBLIC ART
Horsham Rural City Council’s Public Art Policy acknowledges that good public art, design and architecture can build upon the liveability of Horsham by creating a unique community identity that informs our sense of place and creates iconic branding of our municipality. This year saw the installation of two new public art projects commissioned by the Public Art Committee.
CONCENTRIC
In 2012, Melbourne based artist, Laura Woodward won the Horsham Rural City Council Public Art Committee’s call for a city entrance sculpture to be designed and installed at the Stawell Road entrance to Horsham.
Woodward created “Concentric” as a work that reflects our rural city emerging from the Wimmera plains. The laser cut shapes echo the rock faces of the Grampians and Mount Arapiles, our landscape’s two most dominant features. The series of concentric forms overlap to suggest our community coming together. Concentric was unveiled by former Councillor, Michael Ryan in October 2012.
This sculpture is a welcoming signal with a connection to Horsham and the Wimmera visually, thematically and conceptually.
WRITING ON THE WALL
The Writing on the Wall project places poetry in the heart of our city. As we walk through Horsham’s business district, we happen upon a piece of writing discovered perhaps on a seat, a garden edge or a wall. These are the voices of our young people offering us a fresh insight into the meaning of “Belonging”.
In 2013, the Horsham Rural City Council Public Art Committee commissioned artist, Mars Drum to work with the indigenous and migrant communities within Horsham to create a “Writing Club”. The project focused on engaging 15 young people through a creative process, exploring their own personal connection to “place”, where they come from, where they are now and where they are going. This creative writing process has led to 15 lasting public art works throughout Horsham’s Firebrace Street and library surrounds.
Cultural Diversity and Identity, Australian Immigration and Settlement and Community Engagement are the themes that resonate within the arts practice of Mars Drum as she continues to explore and initiate enduring connections between new migrants and the communities in which they seek to settle.
Writing on the Wall was launched in June 2013 by Cr Mark Radford. The project was made possible thanks to joint funding through the Wimmera School Focused Youth Service, a program of Wimmera Uniting Care, and Horsham Rural City Council.
The Concentric sculpture is located on the Stawell Road entrance to Horsham
“A welcoming and compassionate hand offered to a newcomer from another culture is where connection to place can begin. It’s been an enormous privilege to have the chance of working with these inspiring members of Horsham’s culturally diverse community.” Mars Drum, 2013
ANNUAL REPORT 2012 - 2013
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