Street Art
Purpose: Incorporating art will bring much needed liveness and personality to the Alley. Murals are rightly a highly valued cultural asset within Melbourne, and this will be a means of viusally strenghtening the connection between our campus and our city. Indigenous artists will be hired to share their stories as a means of engaging the campus with a connection to image from: https://www.welcometocountry.org/adnatescountry. aboriginal-mural-journey/
How is it happening? Intervention
This intervention will begin with asking people to engage artistically with the wishing wall, to start generating ideas and themes for a street art project. Indigenous artists will then be engaged and paid by the university to create a series of murals across 3 large blank walls along Tin Alley, to tell a story which reconnects the campus to a precolonial Australia.
Who is involved?
- Students and Staff alike are welcome, as we are all artists in our own way! - Local street artists representing the broader community of Melbourne - Local indigenous representatives and invited to offer indigenous perspective and represent indigenous values
The proposal contemplates three murals. Initially, they will be painted as a student’s collaborative process, thus the initial budget would only consider painting material costs. At this phase, murals will only cover reachable height. Further into ‘Stewardship’ phase, as street artists in Melbourne engage, costs will increase, including artists’ fees around $200 per sqm and scaffolding around $250 per week. Art murals attract tourism which could in turn provide income through donations. The murals can also attract city festivals such as White Night, which will provide further monetary benefits.
Evaluation
Lack of covering graffiti and tagging will be a clear indicator of the success of the artwork. Mentions of the artwork on blogs and other media will also measure the success. How often the artwork is instagram-ed, and the frequency artists and location are tagged.
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