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Journey is a major sculptural commission by Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie, developed for Edith Cowan University’s City Campus. Comprising two large-scale feather forms rising 5 and 4 metres in height, the work draws on the cultural significance of the Karak (Red-tailed Black Cockatoo) and Ngoolark (White-tailed Black Cockatoo) to Whadjuk Noongar people. Positioned within the Karak Walk precinct, the sculptures operate as a meeting point - between cultures, histories and contemporary identities. Their forms appear as falling feathers, their shafts piercing a reflective surface that references the ever-present wetland, Goologoolup. This gesture connects the work to the site’s environmental history, and acknowledges the ongoing presence of water beneath the city.
Developed in consultation with Whadjuk Noongar Elders, the work reflects a careful balance between the artist’s practice and the cultural context of place. Journey is both a marker of place and a signal of future direction - asserting the visibility and strength of First Nations culture within a prominent civic and educational setting.
Artist: Reko Rennie
Client: Edith Cowan University
Location: ECU City Campus, Boorloo/Perth, Australia
Art Consultant: Apparatus
Artist Management: David Hagger
Fabrication & Installation: Urban Art Projects, Scape-ism
Noongar Cultural Advisors: Dr Roma Winmar, Farley Garlett and Dr Barb Bynder
Stakeholders: DevelopmentWA
Photography: Frances Andrijich
Commissioned mural by David Booth and Carla McRae for the Eat. SC, a new eatery at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
“A leaping humpback whale, koala, black swan, sea turtle and a fruit-stealing flying fox are nestled amongst banksia, grevillea and poinciana flowers. The Glasshouse Mountains, Big Pineapple, Maroochy River boats, frangipani stickers reminiscent of those found faded on coastal car windshields and a smiling sun wearing sunglasses, inspired by the original 90s Sunbus public transport logo, add a subtle nod to niche Coast ephemera with a nostalgic charm. A reverence to the outdoors is represented through surfing, bush walking, a sunny beach umbrella, fishing and sailing ephemera. Details specific to UniSC - a “chillin’” kangaroo, skateboarder, running purple swamp hen and a magpie stealing a pizza slice - offer humour and playfulness. These elements, interwoven with positive, universal phrases such as "breezin'","yes!", "keep pushin'" and "feeling good", create a dynamic and uplifting space to rest and recharge. ”
Artists: David Booth and Carla McRae
Client: University of the Sunshine Coast
Location: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Project Management: David Hagger
Photography: Warwick Gow
Reko Rennie’s cast bronze sculpture Totemic reimagines the traditional totem through a contemporary lens, fusing historical symbolism with bold, urban aesthetics. Its reflective bronze surface captures light, movement, and the surrounding environment—inviting interaction and shifting perception. Beneath the sculpture, grey paving stones radiate outward in Rennie’s signature diamond pattern, anchoring the work in both place and tradition.
Embodying resilience, identity, and cultural continuity, Totemic encourages reflection on the enduring presence and cultural strength of First Nations peoples, and invites viewers to consider the evolving role of monuments in public space.
Artist: Reko Rennie
Client: Scape
Location: Kensington, Gadigal Land/Sydney, Australia
Curator: Vital Commons
Project Management: David Hagger
Fabrication: Sculpture Co.
Commissioned as part of New Monumental, a public art series curated by Vital Commons for Scape.
Photography: Mark Pokorny
Amongst the ornate interiors of Labassa—a Victorian mansion steeped in the grandeur of gilded surfaces, layered histories, and bohemian afterlives—the work of seven contemporary artists whose practices engage with time, materiality, and the poetics of place, come together over two special evenings. Once the haunt of silent film stars, renegade creatives, and eccentrics, Labassa provides a charged context for their works that oscillate between tradition and reinvention.
Artists: Tia Ansell, Brud Studia, Emma Coulter, Robert Hague, Nicholas Smith, Oliver Wagner, Wendy Yu
Client: VRC x Lexus
Location: Labassa, Caulfield, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Production: Moth Design
Curator: David Hagger
Photography: Hikari Photography and Zach Dean
Tia Ansell appears courtesy of Lon Gallery. Emma Coulter appears courtesy of James Makin Advisory. Nicholas Smith appears courtesy of Haydens. Oliver Wagner appears courtesy of Void_Melbourne.
A contemporary reference to south-eastern mark making on geometric patterning, and in homage to the iconic colours of the Aboriginal flag, Reko Rennie’s artwork Always deliberately affirms its place within the community as one that speaks to its strong connections to First Nations, acknowledging our people through a proud, public declaration of solidarity.
Rennie’s work tends not to take on literal representations, rather uses repetitive pattern as a way to imply significant ties to site and a broader understanding of culture. Scar trees can be found right across the country. Many of these have dendroglyphs within them, acting as markers of place and ceremony.
Artist: Reko Rennie
Client: City of Merri-bek
Location: Brunswick, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Project Management: David Hagger
Commissioned by the City of Merri-bek for Balum Balum Place, a purpose‑built creative and community precinct designed by Kennedy Nolan.
Photography: Derek Swalwell
Lyf Bondi Junction is a 197-unit property designed to offer a unique, experience-led social living hotel for transient professionals, business travellers, and those seeking leisure in the city. Located in the vibrant area of Bondi Junction it offers easy access to Sydney’s CBD and iconic Bondi Beach.
George Rose was commissioned by the client to deliver both internal and external works that drew upon the shapes of Bondi’s infamous coastline, the textures of its sandstone cliffs and the hill leading up to the Junction.
Artist: George Rose
Client: Iglu Pty Ltd
Location: Lyf Bondi Junction, Gadigal Land/Sydney, Australia
Project Manager: David Hagger
Photography: Arthur Vay of Sydney Site Photography
Wounds remind us that we're breakable. They give an exact GPS location of where we stand in life and often they leave a scar forever tying us to that moment in time. You see, while perfection is what we're all aiming for, it's the scars that give us the best stories.
Shot largely on the streets of Melbourne over a three-year period, Wounded is a collection of candid photographs by Jesse Marlow depicting people going about their daily routines despite being affected by some kind of visible, superficial injury. A selection of the series have been positioned within Knox City Council’s lightbox gallery in Boronia and will be on display throughout 2025.
Artist: Jesse Marlow
Client: Knox City Council
Location: Boronia, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Artist Management: David Hagger
Photography: Jesse Marlow
James Geurts’ conceptually driven practice focuses on the way that cultural and natural forces intersect to shape both landscape and perception. Through abstraction, fieldwork, site-actions and studio research, his recent projects explore paradigms of measurement, commodification of water bodies, and investigates concepts of time by merging the primordial, geological and the technological.
Works from numerous series come together under the banner of Weather Actions for a temporary presentation in a private venue at Flemington Race Course.
Artist: James Geurts
Client: VRC
Location: Flemington, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Curatorial Direction: Moth Design
Artist Management: David Hagger
Photography: Albert Comper for Moth Design
Fashioned in response to Monet’s (1893) series Ash Keating’s Ice Floes Response first opened in the gallery At The Above, Melbourne, in parallel with the artist’s exhibition at Museum Langmatt in Switzerland. Ice Floes Response merges the past, present and future in an exploration of the environment, time and form. Transmuting Monet’s signature soft dappling of light into three dimensionality Keating indents a topography of presence. Sanding, brushing, scrubbing, painting and hosing; Keating’s work is a labour of tenacity. A rough terrain of adding and subtracting captures the duration of ice through its dimensionality. What once was whole, glittering against the winter sun is now eroding, flaking off and drifting downstream.
A selection of works this series are exhibited within a temporary presentation in a private venue at Flemington Race Course.
Artist: Ash Keating
Client: VRC
Location: Flemington, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Curatorial Direction: Moth Design
Artist Management: David Hagger
Textile works by Emma Davies. Ceramic works by Tantri Mustika.
Photography: Albert Comper for Moth Design
Within the Geelong Ford factory, amongst an abundance of other equipment, the items that would make up the works in Robbie Rowlands' exhibition Assembled Lines were inconspicuous. They were the foundations for tooling and forging raw materials into production parts for vehicles. They served a purpose, nothing more. Removing them from the factory and positioning them in the studio, the equipment became the raw material itself, charging them with immediate singularity.
Artist: Robbie Rowlands
Location: Platform Arts, Djilang/Geelong, Australia
Artist Management: David Hagger
This project has been supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.
Photography: Robbie Rowlands