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MELBOURNE, VIC | WURUNDJERI, WOI-WURRUNG, BUNURONG BOON WURRUNG
2024
Client: Home
Artist: Meagan Streader
Partners: Craft, Hacer Group, Cox, MARS Gallery
Photography: Claire Armstrong
Adding vibrancy to the Docklands precinct, Meagan Streader’s ‘Quietly Flowing’ is an alluring site-specific response to light and its interaction with the architectural form. The integrated lighting installation weaves through the façade of high-end build-to-rent development, Home Docklands.
Located in Docklands’ new entertainment precinct, Home sets a new standard in built-to-rent residences with its luxurious design by Cox Architecture and its premium hotel-style amenities. Home includes two residential towers, providing 676 build-to-rent apartments in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD.
Commissioned by Craft Victoria, Quietly Flowing is a luminous installation that flows through the monumental concrete columns at Home. Inspired by the rhythm and flow of water through Birrarung and the river systems of Naarm, the artwork concept is founded on renewal and discovery. The artwork uses light to mimic the flow of water around hard forms. The sculpture invites the viewer to pause and appreciate the beauty of light and water, and their connection to the natural environment. The work illustrates how nature and the urban landscapes can coexist.
Tilt supported Meagan in successfully translating and integrating the artwork into the building façade. The artwork’s materiality presented challenges to ensure its integration was seamless. Through prototyping Meagan’s artwork concept to scale, various methods were tested for embedding LED flexi-tubes into a hardwearing substrate, achieving an overall sense of fluidity in the work from varying vantage points. Tilt developed a methodology for fabricating and pre-assembling the artwork in sections, making transport and installation more manageable.
Through careful planning and collaboration between Tilt and the construction team, Hacer Group, the challenges and constraints of using LED artwork were resolved, ensuring a structurally sound piece that remained true to the artistic intent. Tilt worked closely with Hacer to prepare detailed design documentation that addressed all integration requirements from fixings to electrical.
Quietly Flowing is a moody yet uplifting artwork that elevates the appeal of Home and its surrounding public space. It is simple, sophisticated and honours Meagan’s intention to create “a drawing in the sky.”
The organic, water-like curves contrast with the brutal column edges, creating a curious materiality interplay. By day, the artwork appears soft and hazy, while at night, it transforms into sharp linear linework, reflecting the lively and growing city around it. Meagan’s desire to challenge and inspire people to rethink their relationship with the built environment, shines through Quietly Flowing and seeks to shape our understanding of the role of light in public spaces.
The work encourages us to look up and discover the joy in being present and grounded as we experience the spaces that surround us.
– Meagan Streader
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