Commission Process

The Project Advisory Group guided and oversaw the commissioning process and selected the final artwork to be endorsed and commissioned. The project advisory group comprised of representatives from:

• The broader Indigenous community external to RMIT

• RMIT Ngarara Willim Centre

• RMIT University

• RMIT New Academic Street (NAS) Project Office

• RMIT New Academic Street architects

• RMIT curatorial team

• RMIT students

The proposals were assessed against the following key selection criteria:

• Artistic merit and innovation of the concept

• Response to the brief and site—both physical and social

• Durability and longevity of the work proposed, with regard to materials, message and content

• Artist previous experience and/or demonstrated potential to work collaboratively on large scale site-specific public artwork

• Artist capacity to achieve the artwork within the required program, budget and Work Health & Safety Legislation

• Ability for the work to be realised in a permanent context