By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
CASEY Council will look to set up an art collection in Bunjil Place, once the facility officially opens.
Cr Smith raised the issue at the council meeting last week, saying it was important to set up a ‘regional gallery’ in Casey with a permanent collection of art.
The motion, which was carried, deferred a decision on the gallery to the next meeting of the Casey Arts and Cultural Advisory Committee.
Last month during an information session for the $125 million Bunjil Place, Miranda Super, from Paint a Pot in Narre Warren, spoke about potentially having artwork displayed in Bunjil Place once the facility was completed.
With a number of her mother’s artworks in tow, Ms Super spoke about her idea.
“We’d like to do two things – we’d like to put a resin piece in Bunjil, so a large-scale piece that represents the build and the colours around Narre Warren,” she said.
“But we also specialise in community projects so what we’d love to do is get all the local schools involved in a project that could be something like painting tiles of things that they feel represent the local area and this new building that we’re getting.
“And then have a mural put up outside or inside this building.”
