Our street infrastructure boxes need art!

Infrastructure boxes across Moonee Ponds are ready for a refreshing lick of paint.

We are on the hunt for a local experienced artist or artistic collective to get involved with Art Box, a program that beautifies our Moonee Ponds areas by decorating infrastructure boxes.

The boxes have been painted a number of times and are now ready to be refreshed and refurbished, prompting this project.

The proposed art box designs will need to:

• Be suitable for a general public audience, avoiding text, image or messaging content which could be deemed offensive;
• Have an artwork style which is easy for the public to understand;
• Respond to the site in some way, ‘speaking’ to the area or community;
• Be economically and environmentally sustainable;
• Not breach Intellectual Property Rights (somebody else’s idea);
• Not include trademarks, branding or business names, logos or copyrighted images;
• Not include images that resemble graffiti or tags.

What else do you need to know:

• Artist or group of artists are sought to paint the art boxes.
• Quotation requires CV and portfolio of artworks.
• Council and the artist will work together and agree to a site by site risk management plan and responsibilities.
• The artworks must be painted with suitably durable material to remain in place for a period of 3 to 5 years
• Application of quality anti-graffiti coating to all artworks is compulsory.
• The painting must be completed by Monday, 10 July 2023

Applications close on Friday 24 March. Please read the Request for Quotation for Services: Art Box Project 2023 for details and how to apply. You can contact Colin Joe via email CJoe@mvcc.vic.gov.au for more information.