Image: City of Charles Sturt Pocket Parks site map.
Guildhouse has been engaged by City of Charles Sturt to deliver two significant public artwork opportunities for South Australian artists:
- EOI Drayton Street Pocket Park Sculpture
- EOI Chief Street Pocket Park Pavement Design
City of Charles Sturt is currently developing two small-medium plots of vacant land on Drayton Street, Bowden and Chief Street, Brompton into pocket parks. Drayton Street Pocket Park and Chief Street Pocket Park (yet to be formally named) are currently under construction and due to be completed in December 2025.
Two public art opportunities, one for each park, have arisen from the landscape designs.
Individual artists or artist teams are invited to submit their Expressions of Interest in either of these exciting opportunities. Artists are welcome to express their interest in both, however a different artist will be chosen for each pocket park.
Artist are not required to be Guildhouse Members to apply.
EOI close Monday 6 October, 11:59pm ACDT.
Learn more about each opportunity below.
EOI Drayton Street Pocket Park Sculpture
Guildhouse has been engaged by City of Charles Sturt to deliver a significant sculpture or installation artwork for the new pocket park on Drayton Street, Bowden. This opportunity is for a high-quality visual marker or entrance statement for the park that shares a narrative of the community’s history.
The opportunity is for a South Australian artist or artist team to create an artwork that is tailored to the site, drawing on the layered history of the Bowden community and its evolving urban neighbourhood in this new green space.
Designed as a “sit and stay” park, Drayton Street pocket park invites community members to relax and connect within a welcoming and reflective landscape. Bordered by residential homes and a nearby trainline, the park is a place to retreat and serves as a potential venue for small community events.
Please read the Artist Brief to learn more.
EOI Chief Street Pocket Park Pavement Design
Guildhouse has been engaged by City of Charles Sturt to deliver a fun and integrated pavement design artwork for the new pocket park on Chief Street, Brompton. Surrounded by residential housing and shops, this site has been created as a green space to transit though or as a place to stop and pause.
The opportunity is for a South Australian artist or artist team to create a pavement design to be applied to the internal concrete pathway using Thermo Plastic or StreetBond. The design must be tailored to the site, drawing on the layered history of the Brompton community and its evolving urban neighbourhood in this new green space.
Designed as a park that connects residents to transport links and as a thoroughfare, this pocket park hopes to invite community in, offering a connection to nature.
Please read the Artist Brief to learn more.
How to apply:
Complete the EOI form online for each relevant opportunity. Artists are required to submit the following to register their Expression of Interest in this project:
- Submit a short statement of why you are interested in this project (max 200 words).
- Upload an artistic biography and artistic CV (max 2 pages -PDF).
- Images – no more than 10 images of previous artworks that are reflective of your practice and capacity. Please format into one PDF (max 10MB).
Please be aware that our application from does not save your progress. Be ready with your documents to upload and hit submit.
What happens after I submit an EOI?
Artists will be shortlisted from the Expression of Interest submissions by a selection panel made up of the City of Charles Sturt Public Art Selection Group and a Guildhouse representative.
Three shortlisted artists per opportunity will be invited, briefed and contracted to go on to Concept Design stage (paid opportunity).
If you have any questions about this Expression of Interest or the public art commissioning process, please reach out to the Guildhouse team.
Guildhouse
guildhouse@guildhouse.org.au
(08) 8410 1822
