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Artists
Sarah Haq
Haq is a Melbourne based landscape architect and artist. She specialises in design in the public realm and has an interest in mariginalised communties and spaces. She currently works as public space designer and is undertaking a Master of Social Science in International Urban and Environmental Management.
The design was an intervention into the streetscape with a large scale seating deck which responded to and highlighted the topography of the street. This project was designed in collaboration with Justin Hutchinson Design.
A design concept for the Hume City Council, this gateway entry installation marks a point on the Hume Highway where the municipality begins. It is a large scale sculptural element forming text with a continous ribbon of Corten steel.
The design of a small public space in a busy urban shopping strip, Bridge Road with integrated water sensitive urban design principles.
A gallery based installation using projection and model making, the artwork explores concepts of nostalgia, landscape and a sense of place.
Fiona Hillary
Hillary is a Melbourne based artist whose work explores the role of public art in site specific contexts. Curatorially she is interested in the role of public art as a research methodology. Peace and the disruption of peace are common themes in Hillary's work. She currently teaches in the School of Art at RMIT with a focus
on art in public spaces.
positive binaries saw a series of text pieces installed across the City of Melbourne exploring the notion of positive binaries in the daily news.
Skypetrait Transcontinental Faces is a research project between RMIT Art in Public Space and Reutlingen University, Germany,that aims to explore the role of drawing and portraiture within the public space of Skype. Members: Henning Eichinger, Maggie McCormick, Pixi Mix, Freya Pitt, Chris Bold, Georgie Humphries, Dan Mitchell, Fiona Hillary, Uta Krauss, Annie Kurz, Christina Liadeli, Chantal Rasquin, Thea Tromsdorf, Tatjana Zhabina.
Urban Laboratory was a 12 month collaborative project, commissioned by the City of Melbourne to explore perceptions of safety in Hosier and Rutledge lanes. Doyle's work, 'Empty Nursery Blue' was one of five projects curated and produced by Hillary for RMIT. Other artists included: Ben Cittadini 'Community Ghosting', Clare McCracken 'The Dandy Turtle', Ceri Hann 'Totally Rough' and Yandell Walton 'Transition'. Photograph by Pia Johnson.
Inspired by Syrian sign writers during the Arab Spring uprising inscribing the walls of their cities with love for their country. Peace anthology explores our relationship to the countries involved in the Arab Spring and the War on Terror, sharing the love. Melbourne Projection Windows.