Cylinder

Cylinder is a new public art space in the Melbourne CBD established, developed and managed by City of Melbourne Creative Spaces.

Opportunities currently exist for artists and curators to present works utilising a repurposed ticket booth on Swanston Street, near Collins Street and adjacent to the City Square.

The interior and exterior of can be utilised for projects. The structure is a cylindrical tube of stainless steel approximately 2.2m high and 1.1m deep with double doors opening onto the street, facing the City Square. There is a power point and a single light source inside, and a translucent acrylic roof. The interior has an industrial feel with bare stainless steel walls.

Creative Spaces invites interest from artists and curators who would like to devise a work or program of works for Cylinder in 2010.

Please contact us to take look at the site and discuss your idea, or to send a proposal:

Marcia Jane
Creative Spaces | T: 03 9658 8593 | E: marcia.jane@melbourne.vic.gov.au

A proposal should include:

A short description of the project.

Details about which parts of the Cylinder structure you plan to use and how. Will it be open or closed? Are you planning to mount anything on it? Will an audience be present? Etc.

CVs for the artists and/ or curators involved.

A small amount of supporting material to help explain the proposal idea.

A preferred duration and timing for your project. Proposals can be taken on a rolling basis with timeslots and durations flexible.

In thinking about proposals, artists should become familiar with the City of Melbourne’s Protocol on Artworks

About Creative Spaces
Creative Spaces is an initiative co-funded by the City of Melbourne and Arts Victoria that sources, secures, manages and provides information on development and exhibition spaces for people in the creative industries across Victoria. As a hybrid of two major organizations, its mandate is to deliver both the City of Melbourne’s ‘Housing the Arts Strategy’ as well as apply its knowledge, expertise and resources to artists and arts organisations statewide.

The Creative Spaces website at www.creativespaces.net.au provides information on spaces that are suitable for creative use across Victoria. Creative Spaces also manages 22 studios in the former Boyd High School in Southbank, assists private building owners to develop their buildings into suitable spaces for creative projects, partners with festivals, educational institutions, government, philanthropic and private organizations to produce a broad range of services around space provision.