Cultural Capital partnered with ESR Australia & NZ to author a public art strategy that would recognise the transformative power of art in industrial spaces. The aim of the strategy was to elevate workplace environments, foster community connections, and allow site users to thrive. The resulting strategy was the ‘Creative Communities’ program, which provided a framework to commissioning site-specific artworks made by local artists that celebrate the creativity of communities across Australia and their colourful relationships to place. Cultural Capital has delivered multiple artworks for the Creative Communities program, adopting a site-specific approach to each project.

We have engaged with local artists across Australia. Commissioned works in the program include ‘Pretty Little Fears’ by Dylan Bolger in Acacia Ridge, QLD, ‘Chromatic Oscillation’ by Drez in Cherry Lane, VIC,  and ‘Twilight Driving’ by Helen Proctor in Horsley Park, NSW, and ‘Resonance’ by Nastia Gladuschenko in Kemps Creek, NSW.

The ‘Creative Communities’ program has been celebrated for bringing vibrancy, colour and creative expression to industrial sites, enhancing the well-being of users, workers and visitors and celebrating the diversity of creative communities across Australia.