Public Art Framework

Public Art enhances private and public places and centers, residential neighbourhoods, commercial and industrial locations across the whole of the City. It also contributes to our understanding and appreciation of our cultural and natural heritage and the sense of place within the community

The City is advertising its draft Public Art Masterplan, a revised Local Planning Policy Local Planning Policy No. 5 – Development Contribution Towards Public Art (LPP5) and newly created Public Art Guidelines and would like your feedback. Together, these three documents contribute to a Public Art Framework for public art provision in the City.

The advertising period is from Wednesday 22^nd June to 3^rd August 2022.

Draft Masterplan

The Draft Masterplan includes an overarching vision statement, identified public art opportunities and key curatorial themes. The key curatorial themes are Many Stories One community, Wanjoo, Thrive and The Heart of Industry. 

The benefits of public art in the City of Kwinana are maximized by their connections to a wide range of community and City goals and outcomes where the community feel connected to and represented by the public artworks of the area.

Other elements of the draft Masterplan are:

• public art in Local Government,
• public art processes, definitions,
• types of public art and the benefits of public art.

Strong community engagement has already taken place as part of preparing the draft Masterplan.

Margret Feilman Mural in Medina. Photo: Aaron Brown Photography

Revised Draft Local Planning Policy Local Planning Policy No. 5 

The City’s Local Planning Policy was first adopted in 2018 and requires that most forms of new development valued in excess of $2,000,000 contribute a percent of the value towards public art. This ‘Percent for Art’ principle is well established in Western Australia and is contributing to the quality of Perth’s centers and neighbourhoods. The City’s policy allows the contribution towards public art to be provided either on site as part of a development or via a cash-in-lieu payment.

The City is reviewing the policy to provide more clarity around a number of components and importantly, is proposing to reduce the amount which industry would contribute to public art.

Draft Public Art Guidelines

The last component of the City’s Public Art Framework is the Public Art Guidelines The guidelines is designed as a ‘how to guide’ for the proponent about the City’s expectations for public art as part of the planning approval process from start to finish and the relationship with the Masterplan and LPP5. It also provides examples about types of public art and costs.

It’s designed for planning applicants, artists and art consultants and is aimed at guiding the applicant through the planning and building approvals processes to provide for an efficient but effective assessment of public art proposals and reports.