1O1 COLLINS WINS MAJOR PUBLIC ART AWARD

1O1 Collins Street Evolution, which features a large-scale multimedia commission by Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/Wamba Wamba/Yorta Yorta/Boonwurrung), has won the Rider Levett Bucknall RLB Award for Best Public Art Project.

Exhibiting acclaimed local and international artists, the suite of permanent public artworks including Maree’s Barerarerungar reflects 1O1 Collins’ past, present and future as an ardent contributor to Melbourne’s art community.

Maree’s installation, featuring photography and video, explores the customary ceremonies and rituals of her Ancestors.

“My work has a quality of timelessness, using new technologies to tell stories of past, present, and future. I would like people entering and exiting this part of the building to not just think about what they are doing and where they are going but what has been before and where they could go. Barerarerungar is representative of the five clans of the Kulin Nation. Viewed together, they visually transport visitors and passers-by to another place and time and create space to reflect on the thriving arts and culture by First Nations artists in the Southeast, long before Melbourne came to be.”