James Reserve public art opportunity

Published on 10 February 2025

Toilet block mural

We are commissioning public murals for the walls of a soon-to-be-installed public toilet and a recreational hit-up wall at James Reserve in Heidelberg. Are you interested?

Our Arts and Culture team wants to hear from artists living anywhere in Victoria who are interested in creating new, high quality public murals for these walls. Your ideas must be creative, original, exciting and appropriate for the location, park users and local community.

This is an excellent opportunity for a talented, professional mural artist to create an original, site-specific work.

Key dates and artist brief

  • Call out opens: 10 February
  • Call out closes: 11:59pm, 2 March
  • Notification of successful shortlisted artists: 14 March
  • Concept designs by shortlisted artists due: 6 April
  • Notification of successful commissioned artist: 14 April
  • Installation commences for public toilet mural: mid to late April
  • Installation for public toilet completed: mid to late May
  • Installation commences for rebound wall: approximately September/October 2025

You must read the full artists brief, paying close attention to the requirements expected from you and the James Reserve concept design detail. Both will inform your response to the brief.

Read the artist brief(PDF, 1MB)

Selection

Selection of the final artworks will take place in a 2-stage process. After this open call out, up to 3 shortlisted artists will be invited to submit a more developed proposal and will be paid a design fee. From these designs the final artworks will be chosen.

We are seeking 1 artist to undertake both the public toilet and rebound wall artworks. The walls will be completed at different times, and the artist will be required to install the artworks at separate times in 2025.

What to prepare

Let us know you're interested by sending us:

  • an artistic CV or bio
  • up to 4 sample images of your work or a link to an online folio or website
  • a 250-word response to the artistic brief.

Tell us you're interested

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