Engagement opens 21 March 2025
Engagement closes 5pm 27 April 2025
Help shape the future of Public Art in Greater Geelong.
The current Public Art Strategy for the City of Greater Geelong was developed in 2012 as a 10-year Strategy. We are now reviewing our program and we need your help.
Your feedback will assist us to develop a program for public art within our municipality, creating works that shape our City. With your assistance, we will identify potential sites for future public art development, assess growth and interest in public art throughout the City including new developments and the need to provide clarity and policy direction. We will work together with our diverse community to deliver public art outcomes that excite, inspire, showcase our living cultural heritage and reflect our cultural identity as a UNESCO City of Design.
Meaningful city design and planning includes urban and public art as an essential component, recognising that art makes a city attractive and interesting for both residents and visitors.
Public Art aims to enhance and activate public spaces, by giving expression to our stories, our people and our unique place. It plays an important role in the identity of Greater Geelong, the renewal of our urban areas, can be a focal point for cultural expression, storytelling and community conversation and contributes to the enrichment of our lives and celebration of who we are.
For Council to support these aims, we need diverse ideas, voices and people to be part of developing a new Public Art Strategy. Council has supported public art for a long time, but much has changed within the sector, the community and Council about representation, use of new technologies, updated approaches to public art.
We want your creative juices to flow and for you to share your experiences, ideas and stories to help shape the new Public Art Strategy… there are plenty of ways to get involved.
Our goal is to develop a clear direction for the public art strategy, establishing processes to drive a contemporary program and vision for the next ten years to meet the expectations of our creative community.
We will be engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders from our community, along with industry experts and organisational leaders, to gather ideas for the design and development of the new public art program.
We will also be reviewing the existing Public Art Strategy, and researching a range of related policies, strategies and frameworks that relate to this activity to inform our decision making.
Your feedback is important to us. Please share your experiences, ideas, and stories to help shape the new Public Art Strategy, there are plenty of ways to get involved.
Complete the online survey. It is as simple as clicking this link before Sunday 27 April 2025 and be in the running for $100 store voucher and two tickets to Geelong Gallery paid exhibition.
Image: I AM, 2021, Mark Cuthbertson, Robert Croft, Hannah Wilkinson, Christian Den Besten, George Macaronis. Photo: Reg Ryan.
Share your stories, videos or images of great public art you love, either here in Geelong or elsewhere in the world. Or tell us a great local story you think would be perfect to explore through public art.
Image: 'Don't Forget About Me': Cowies Creek
2023 Nikki McKenzie, Jurrawaa, Tarryn Love
Drop a pin on our map to highlight an existing public artwork in Greater Geelong that you value and why.
Image: 'Flight Path' - Minna Leunig
Join industry colleagues and highly accomplished contemporary artists for an in person lively discussion about the role public art can play in amplifying Greater Geelong’s status as a UNESCO City of Design.
FRIDAY, 4 APRIL
Wurriki Nyal, Council Offices, 6PM - 9PM
There will be an opportunity for everyone to share their ideas, experiences and expertise to inform the public art strategy.
Registration is required using the link below. Please note that spots are limited.
Image - 'Yield' - Kaffeine
Come along to a local discussion about public art.
All welcome, these will be interactive workshops and opportunity for everyone to share their ideas, experiences and expertise.
1. THURSDAY 3 APRIL - Wurriki Nyal, Council Offices, 6PM -8PM
2. SATURDAY 5 APRIL - Barwon Heads Arts Hub
9.30AM - 11.30AM
Registration is required, please use the link below for more details and to register your interest.
Registrations close 1 April, 2025.
Image: Reconciliation Week - Ash Thomas
We're holding a series of drop-in sessions at Greater Geelong libraries. Come and chat to the team at any of these locations:
Ocean Grove Library - Mon 7 April / 9.30am - 11.30am
Drysdale Library - Tue 8 April / 10am - 12pm
Geelong Regional Library - Tue 8 April / 2pm - 4pm
Corio Library - Thu 10 April / 9:30am - 11:30am
Armstrong Creek Library - Thu 10 April / 4pm - 6pm
We look forward to meeting you and to hear your ideas for public art.
Image: 'Poppykettle' - Robert Ingpen
Have questions or want to learn more about a project, contact us below:
| Phone | 03 5272 5272 |
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| Website | www.geelongaustralia.com.au/contact/ |
The National Relay Service is available as a phone solution for people who are deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment.
We Acknowledge the Wadawurrung People as the Traditional Owners of the Land, Waterways and Skies. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We Acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are part of our Greater Geelong community today.
