Art Box project launches Saturday

Published on 28 April 2022

Horsham Rural City Council has installed 16 public artworks across the city.

Known as the nbn Art Box project, the artworks were originally chosen from Council’s Public Art Advisory Committee’s expression of interest process in mid-2020 and feature the work of 17 local artists, two schools and two arts collectives.

The art was then graphically designed to envelop each nbn node box and installed across a six-month period.

The nbn Art Box project will be launched at the Horsham Town Hall and Regional Art Gallery at 3pm on Saturday April 30 as a public exhibition of all 16 works including schematic designs and artists concepts.

There will also be a location map on Council's website.

Council would like to acknowledge nbnTM Local for enabling access to its infrastructure for the project as well as financial support of the artist’s nbn boxes associated with Goolum Goolum.

These included Amarah’s InDigital Art, Imigo Dawn, Tanisha Lovett, Kelanee Lovett, Jaala Marks-Lovett, and Kira MarksLovett, as well as the collective boxes by the KOOKAS and the Celebrating Sistas art clubs. The boxes also features the work of other independent local artists including: Amabile Dalfarra-Smith, Hannah French, Mark Radford, Christine Umbers; emerging young artists, Lincoln Fischer, Lani Jones and Freya Jones as well as Dimboola Primary School and Horsham College Digital Art students, Amy Schmidt, Lani Jones, Dom Murray and Beth Riddington.

“Public art is a vital and exciting way for the wider community to engage with art. Understanding the process and artist perspective allows us to better appreciate their vision and storytelling," Horsham Regional Art Gallery Director Jane Scott said.  

Exhibition information and artwork locations