Mirvac’s latest photographic art installation as part of its Urban Art program at Yarra’s Edge in Docklands has been unveiled.

The spectacular photographic billboard positioned on Tower 1, 60 Lorimer Street, is by renowned Australian artist Julie Rrap. The photograph ‘Castaway 1’ has been selected from Rrap’s photographic series, Escape Artist: Castaway.

Julie states, “The work evolved from a series of ideas that came into focus during its making. Initially I imagined cross-pollination between two different images and scenarios; that of the figures in Gericault’s painting, Raft of the Medusa, and the figure of Marilyn Monroe in her famous dress and high heels standing over a wind vent in the street.

This hybrid in turn spawned a generation of new images and effects; high-heeled shoes morphed into dissolving ice objects that in turn created new forms such as the image of a raft.”

Rrap’s work is the latest in the Yarra’s Edge Urban Art program, which was chosen through an independent panel of specialist art curators in conjunction with Mirvac, who select works which are both representative of Australian culture and society and are thought provoking for the broader community.
As part of this program, the billboard on Tower 1 (60 Lorimer Street) exhibits a new static image every 12 months and has been dedicated to contemporary Australian photographic art.

The current curatorial theme is ‘Edge of Time and Tide’ as a means to activate dialogue within themes of time, memory, presence/absence and the visible/invisible. The current image is the eighth installed to date.

For further information on Yarra’s Edge Urban Art program contact 9645 9400.