ROSE NOLAN
HALLAM
T Projects worked with the South Eastern Program Alliance to deliver the integrated art commission for Hallam Station. Working closely with the design team and City of Casey Council, T Projects developed the brief; sourced a long list of potential artists; led the arts assessment and procurement processes and assisted the shortlisted artists throughout concept design delivery.
Client
Artist
Project Team
South Eastern Program Alliance, with BKK, Kyriacou, Jacobs, & Laing O’Rourke
Fabricator
Photography
Christian Capurro & T Projects
Titled YOU/ME/US/HERE/NOW, the public artwork on the underside of the rail bridge is a playful, collective and unifying refrain that draws on the notion of shared journeys and the experience of travel and movement, using the literal concept of transport connections (elevated parallel tracks, shared platforms, timetables) to consider the more abstract idea of connections to people, place, culture, past and present. Created by renowned artist Rose Nolan, YOU/ME/US/HERE/NOW is an open, positive and bold text-based proposition for people to consider as they move through the portal of Hallam Station. The work acknowledges the daily passage of commuters as they move through space and time, transitioning between public and private worlds. It takes into consideration the beauty and language of the architectural design, the activation of public space and the significant role the new Hallam Station plays within the community.
The commission complements the new station’s modern architectural design and provides an open, positive and unifying centre piece that draws on the notion of shared journeys and the experience of travel and movement. The bi-directional nature of the commuter’s travel is reflected in the repeated phrase appearing underneath the rail bridge, in opposite directions.
ROSE NOLAN
Born 1959, Melbourne, Victoria. Lives and works Melbourne.
One of a group of Australian artists who formed a loose association around the experimental and innovative Store 5 artist-run space in Melbourne between 1989 and 1993, Rose Nolan’s work traverses forms and ideals founded in utopian strands of 20th-century avant-gardism.
Rose Nolan has exhibited widely nationally and internationally since the 1980s. Recent solo exhibitions include Immodest Gestures and Irrational Thoughts, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (2015); Performance Architecture, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (2013); The Solo Projects, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne (2011); Why Do We Do the Things We Do, Artspace, Sydney and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2008); and Work in Progress #3, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne (2008). Selected group exhibitions include 21st Century: The Collection Since 2000, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2015); Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2014); Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Forever Young, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2011); and 21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2006). Nolan’s work is represented in major state gallery collections within Australia and private collections in Copenhagen, Cologne, Wellington and Amsterdam.
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