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Estimated Budget

A realistic estimate of the total cost of the project to the point of completion: 

EDQ’s budget is $40,000-$70,000 

Shipping containers - $26,400

4 20ft shipping containers 

On average a new 20ft container will cost $6600 - price is dependent on the state of the container (Container Trading, 2021)

Feature artist and artwork costs: $10,000 per year (consistent with employment of the artist)

Artist fees are generally 10% of a public art project - however as this is a more hands on and requires more participation from the artist $10,000 would be considerate (NAVA, 2022). 

Solar panels: $3989

Aircon is 3000-5000 watts per day (Jaric, 2022). 4000kw per aircon per day, x 4 aircons =16,000kwh needs to be supported

1kw of solar panels = 4kwh of electricity produced per day (roughly)

the 6.6kw solar system generates 26.4kWh on a good sunny day, therefore supporting the needed 16,000kwh for the aircons and includes supporting downlights too. 

6600W solar system equates to 20x 330 W panels (5 panels on the roof of each shipping container (Choice, 2022)  

6.6kw system starts from $3989 from Solar Masters 

Art materials (painting will be done outside) = $8470 

Rolls of canvas - $27.95 per metre from Art Shed Brisbane. Need 250 metre to cater to students (will need to be restocked very few months) = $6,980 

Impasto Acrylic Paints 2 litre - $34.50 from Eckersley’s Art & Craft. Need 20 bottles of paint to facilitate concept properly (will need to be restocked very few months) = $690

Miscellaneous mediums and art items = $800

Aircon units - $2,400

4 aircons - one per shipping container

One Hisense C2.5kW Reverse Cycle Split System Aircon from the Good Guys costs $599

Down lights - $165

3 downlights per shipping container 

Pack of 5 downlights costs $55 (Bunnings, 2022)

Water tank: $1300

Cost of 10L tank from Plastic Tanks QLD 

Outdoor sink: $1131

Vogue 2400mm 90mm Drain Double Bowl Sink from Restaurant Equipment Online 

Electrictian (installation costs) 

$3000 for solar panel installation (Wrigley, 2022) 

$1500 for other electricals 

Miscellaneous 

$3000 dedicated to miscellaneous costs 

An estimated budget = $58,355 

Therefore falling within EDQ’s budget and is between $40,000 and $70,000 and is feasible and economically viable

NAVA. (2022). Public Art. National Association for the Visual Arts.

 https://visualarts.net.au/advocacy/campaigns/publi c-art/

Container Trading. (2021). Looking for boxes? Uncover the best container prices 2022. XCHANGE.

 https://www.container-xchange.com/blog/shipping-co ntainer-price/#:~:text=On%20an%20average%2C%20a%20 new,the%20state%20of%20the%20container

The Good Guys. (2022). Air Conditioners. The Good Guys. https://www.thegoodguys.com.au/heating-and-cooling /air-conditioners

Bunnings. (2022). Downlights and fittings. Bunnings.

 https://www.bunnings.com.au/products/lighting-elec trical/lighting/interior/downlights-fittings

PTQ. (2022). 22,500 litre tank. Plastic Tanks QLD.

 https://ptq.com.au/cube/22-500-litre-tank.html?gcl id=CjwKCAjwrqqSBhBbEiwAlQeqGlw2L47eNj0TsTfdOZQ8xn0 ySdB6Ru7I6jLBGmudNuJTGaT4RFRD4BoCli0QAvD_BwE

Jaric. (2022). How much energy does your air conditioner really use?​. Jaric.

 https://jaricgroup.com.au/blog/air-con-energy-usag e/

Choice. (2022). Sizing your solar panel system. Choice.

 https://www.choice.com.au/home-improvement/energy- saving/solar/articles/how-much-solar-do-i-need

Solar Masters. (2022). Solar panels brisbane. Solar Masters.

 https://solarmasters.com.au/?gclid=CjwKCAjwrqqSBhB bEiwAlQeqGpVhGFAi6aVeYyn9cRLSYST1Lo5TCWf42I95VhaEP GuGzO6ht1Vh2BoC0bgQAvD_BwE

Art Shed Brisbane. (2022). Canvas. Art Shed Brisbane.

 https://www.artshedbrisbane.com.au/collections/can vas?_=pf

Eckersleys Art and Craft. (2022). Global Fine Art Student Acrylic Impasto Paints 2 Litre. Eckersleys Art and Craft.

 https://www.eckersleys.com.au/global-fine-art-stud ent-acrylic-impasto-paints-2-litre?gclid=CjwKCAjwr qqSBhBbEiwAlQeqGqXNE3qjuEMEtSQQBocLRTOMHSR2ngeFioz rKsBT4mqcI3ePEBSnkRoCiOwQAvD_BwE

Wrigley K. (2022). Solar Installation Costs Explained. Canstar Blue.

 https://www.canstarblue.com.au/solar/solar-install ation-cost/

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Meet Ella - the key persona

Ella is 17, studying visual art in grade 12. She is currently working on an assignment that follows the QCAA curriculum guidelines and studies the importance of the history of the Brisbane River. She enjoys going shopping, spending time with her friends, plays netball on the weekends and is generally a very creative person.

Her class is going on an excursion to Northshore as a stimulus for the assessment. 

By attending a day at Maritime Green, and participating in this activity, she will learn about the Aboriginal history relevant to Northshore and the Brisbane River with the educational tour and showcase with the feature artist. This will inspire her to create an Aboriginal Art style piece. This artwork will then be displayed as part of the Maritime gallery. This artwork will also feature as part of her developmental process in coming to create a resolved artwork for her assessment work as per QCAA criteria.  

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Feasibility, Sustainability and Enduring Significance

Major costs for this concept include the installation of art for the gallery, the supply of art materials for students (including preservation and maintenance of this), paying artists and licensing, and other miscellaneous costs. These costs are relatively low and easy/simple to acquire and implement, thus falling within the client’s budget and timeframe (within the next 3 years). 

As an excursion-type event, my concept can be attended by all relevant highschools across the Brisbane area and can be refreshed each year as the QCAA curriculum changes to suit new adaptations, implementing new feature artists with different concepts. 

It is environmentally sustainable as it requires no new major infrastructure (excluding shipping containers) and is a low wastage project - using recycled materials and solar power. Economically it is also sustainable, falling within EDQ’s budget. 

Only requiring upkeep to ensure quality materials are provided to students and that the artworks maintain their quality whilst displayed inside shipping containers (i.e. use of aircon).

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Audience Engagement, Ethics and Diversity

My project aims to inspire the youth audience through stories of the Indigenous experience and hardship relevant to Northshore and the feature artist’s practice - using this as a stimulus they are inspired to create art. The senior highschool art sector is inclusive to all, and allows for different modes of expression and interpretation, thus sustaining a diverse youth audience. The audience can be grown by expanding the experience to all highschool grades, and tailoring their experiences to the specified art curriculum. 

The demographic specific to Northshore is Year 11 and 12 art students, with their highschools and the QCAA (who establish the curriculum) being key stakeholders. Additionally, feature artists and Indigenous people are stakeholders. 

Revisitation is to come from students bringing their families/friends to view the gallery and the art that they themselves have created.

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Originality

The concept reflects Northshore’s ideologies through its advocacy of Indigenous heritage and spirituality. By using the Brisbane River as its subject matter, my concept enhances the geographic and physical features of Northshore. Personally, my keen interest in Indigenous art, history and spirituality has inspired my idea with this concept. I am passionate about Indigenous art and its significance to place - hence the focus on Indigenous art to inspire placemaking. 

My project can be produced without my involvement as it is relatively simple to facilitate and can be refreshed using a different feature artist/altering the content. 

In comparison to other artistic experiences and galleries, my concept parallels traditional galleries but incorporates a ‘hands on’ display process and experience as opposed to a standard view opportunity.

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Responds to Site and Client Brief

In response to the site and client brief, this creative project responds to EDQ’s want for the activation of the Northshore site. By encouraging youth (Year 11 and 12) to come to, and engage with content at the site, through this immersive and educational experience, they are activating the site. Specifically, the concept reflects EDQ’s objective to emphasise the Indigenous history of the land and relationship with the river. By encouraging families/friends to return to view students art revisitation and consequential placemaking is occurring - EDQ’s key goal (Qld Gov., 2022). The project also fills the lack of awareness regarding Indigenous hardship through its education program - addressing current social challenges and ignorance. 

Value is added to Northshore through the response to the youth target market - allowing for increased brand awareness through the relationship with this demographic. Youth have key social media presence (i.e. Tiktok posts of their participation to market the concept). 

QLD Goverment. (2022). Northshore [Online document].

 Qld Gov. https://blackboard.qut.edu.au/bbcswebdav/pid-96662 00-dt-content-rid-49229855_1/courses/KKB285_22se1/ EDQ%20Client%20Briefing%20-%20slides%20-%20Sem%201 %202022.pdf

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The chosen concept

Educational tour/guided experience and artmaking (to be displayed in gallery setup inside shipping containers) - inspired by Northshore’s Indigenous heritage and led by a feature artist = Art at Yerrol, Hands-on and Highlights. 

Targeting Year 11 and 12 Art Students and is relevant to their curriculum, serving as stimulus for their work concerning the Brisbane River and Indigenous Australians.

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Idea 2

Example of Brisbane Street Art Festival (work by Miss Birdy)

This concept also invites Year 11 & 12 students to participate in an excursion to Northshore. However, it is not exclusive to students studying art, and instead caters to all students serving as contextual background relevant to their Study of Religion, Modern History, Art, English curriculums that concern Indigenous Australian heritage (QCAA, 2022). Here, an educational tour and art gallery featuring Aboriginal artworks housed in shipping containers will be facilitated. This idea takes inspiration from the Brisbane Street Art Festival that Northshore is to host - through its gallery and observation set up (BSAFEST, 2022)

Brisbane Street Art Festival. (2022). Brisbane Street Art Festival.

 https://bsafest.com.au/

QCAA. (2022). Senior Subjects. Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority.

 https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/senior-subjects

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My Experience

Wayfairing (2011) By Jacqueline Scotcher 

My own artwork inspired by excursion

Photo from excursion

The concept of idea 1 sources inspiration from my own experience doing art in highschool. In Year 12, we participated in an excursion/incursion that involved a stimulating walk along the Brisbane River Walk and an art making workshop back at school - all of which was led by Brisbane artist, Jacqueline Scotcher.

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Idea 1

This concept invites Year 11 & 12 art students to participate in an excursion-type day, involving the showcase of an Indigenous Artist, a historical tour and presentation regarding Yerrol’s Indigenous heritage, and finally students making their own artwork inspired by their experience. These artworks will then be displayed as part of a gallery house by shipping containers. The content that students will be exposed to will parallel their Internal Assessment work, following the direction of the QCAA curriculum (QCAA, 2022). 

QCAA. (2022). Visual art and Aboriginal knowledges. Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority.  https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/about/k-12-policies/ab original-torres-strait-islander-perspectives/resou rces/a-visual-art-knowledges

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Youth Audience Segment

The specific segment of the youth audience that will be targeted will be highschool students in Year 11 and 12. In particular, those students studying visual art at school will be invited to participate. The concept will appeal to these students and their art interest as they will participate in artmaking and education regarding the history of Indigenous peoples at the Northshore site. By learning and immersing themselves in Indigenous art and heritage regarding Brisbane River, students will feel connected to place as they are educated and have unique representations of their knowledge.

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Northshore’s Indigenous Heritage

- Indigenous Australians preparing for hunting 

Northshore was inhabited by the Turrbal and Jagera people, who referred to the area as Yerrol. This area (Yerrol Towrie), and toward Breakfast Creek was a main hunting/resource area, being environmentally diverse. Northshore was also an important river crossing point for Indigenous peoples, and was also numerously inhabited by Aboriginal spiritual campgrounds. 

However, the 1800s saw a drive to limit all remaining Aboriginal presence to institutions. Removed from urban centres and kept in prisons, hostels and mental asylums etc., Indigenous culture and spirituality diminished, with no people left living in the Northshore by the 1910s. 

QLD GOV. (2022). Northshore History. Northshore.

 https://northshorebrisbane.com.au/history/

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Reflections

How can I encourage repeat visitations and dwell time = with the aim of having this become a regular occurrence, if students are coming here, how can I incentivise them to come back with their family?

Considering the Indigenous perspective, how can this connection to land and spirituality be preserved/used as a mode of education and entertainment?

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Observations

- the shed and maritime green

The shed:

Could be used as a presenting space i.e. guest presenter comes. 

Had a key outdoor/indoor experience space - could be beneficial for catering/lunch time, allowing for active travel through integration of shade.

Working with Indigenous artwork on the floor (integration of this theme?)

As aspects of placemaking involve audiences moving through various parts of the site, integration of The Shed could be beneficial. 

Workshop/makerspace:

How could this collective community enjoying manual arts and commercial enterprise (i.e. entrepreneurs and investors) be beneficial?

Maritime Green (Focus):

Large space bordering onto river

The hanger is a performance space and amphitheatre is behind 

Barbeque spaces 

Shaded area, grassed centre.

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Client Brief

- Maritime Green

Economic Development Queensland (EDQ) is the master planner and developer of Northshore and is aiming to use key placemaking to develop a new precinct for Brisbane (i.e. implementation of immersive experiences and events). EDQ seeks visits from youth and sustaining site visits through conceptual engagement at Northshore’s waterfront Maritime Green Park (Qld Gov., 2022). 

QLD Goverment. (2022). Northshore [Online document].

 Qld Gov. https://blackboard.qut.edu.au/bbcswebdav/pid-96662 00-dt-content-rid-49229855_1/courses/KKB285_22se1/ EDQ%20Client%20Briefing%20-%20slides%20-%20Sem%201 %202022.pdf

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Concept Pitch

Image 1: photo by Fish Lane Arts Precinct Image 2: photo by Culture Connect 

“Art at Yerrol, Hands-on and Highlights” - by Ruby Quinn

Enrich your artistic learnings through the discovery and experience of Northshore’s Indigenous heritage at Yerrol. ‘Hands-on and Highlights’ does more than merely educate its senior highschool participants as to Indigenous art practice, spirituality and dreaming - this experience encourages students to practice their learnings through hands-on art making which is then showcased and highlighted. 

Skills required:

Audience engagement 

Creative Networking abilities 

Written communication (working with schools to establish these excursions)

Modelling fabrication/visualisation (drafting and designing concept) 

Audio visual (music & sound for art installation showcase/outdoor gallery)