Manna Gum is inspired by the local eucalypt blossoms and marks the start of the Bolin Bolin Cultural Landscape Trail.

This trail passes through an area which was an important gathering place for the local Wurundjeri people due to its seasonal abundance of food. The Wurundjeri frequented the area when the billabongs were low, the eucalypts were flowering and they were able to collect nectar.

Location of artwork

•  Bulleen Park, Bulleen Road, Bulleen, VIC 3105
•   View on map

About the artist

Simon Horsburgh is primarily a sculptor and installation artist. His prevailing artistic preoccupations are with elemental dynamics and the formal and poetic potential of ordinary things.

He has exhibited extensively in Melbourne, as well as interstate and abroad across the past fifteen years. He has been the recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award as well as Arts Victoria International Cultural Exchange and New Work Grants. He has an MFA (Research) from the Victorian College of the Arts and held a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary. 

Related downloads

These pieces are part of a large series of sculptures which are vertical and totemic.

• Time in Autumn - 1993 to 1994
• Time in Spring - 1993 to 1994
• The Pendulum - 1993
• The Clef - 1994 to 1995

Time in Spring and Time in Autumn refer to subtle changes and ‘Happenings’ in nature by their contract as a pair. The Clef has a musical reference and The Pendulum suggests a certain functionalism.

There is no hidden symbolism in these sculptures. They are about particular sentiments alluded to their titles. Being derived from the idea of totems they are particular of these sentiments.

Location of artwork

•  Manningham Civic Centre grounds, 699 Doncaster Road, Doncaster, VIC 3108
•   View on map

Related downloads

Welcome to Future Ahead where opportunities for insight and reflection are just overhead.

Inspired by the native Xerochrysum viscosum which has many names including the Golden Everlasting, Future Ahead is designed to be the heart of the new park on Hepburn Road.  

Bathing the park and its community in light, day and night. Future Ahead creates an expanding community crucible where connections and delightful discoveries abound and are an everyday occurrence.

Location of artwork

•  Hepburn Reserve, 9 Hepburn Road, Doncaster VIC 3108
•   View on map

About the artist

Skunk Control create visually engaging works and immersive experiences that provide the public with a sense of wonderment and opportunities to make discoveries. 

Drawing on technology; design and art and their training in engineering, science and education, their works are interactive and impactful. As well as creating permanent public works, they also produce hands on community outreach programs that further engage the community in the artistry and technology that underpins their creative output.

Learn more about Skunk Control

• Website - Skunk Control
• Vimeo - Skunk Control
• Instagram - @skunkcontrol

Related downloads

Particularly inspired by the panoramic vista of Ruffey Lake Park, EllipseCircleView embodies simple geometric forms to encourage contemplation of the immediate surrounds. 

Drawing from elements of conceptual sculpture, landscape painting, and anamorphic projection, this contemporary artwork comprises two polished stainless steel forms: a circular structure and an ellipse. 

These intertwining circular forms act as dynamic framing devices of the ever-changing views both up close and from a distance. Of particular interest, the ellipse is proportioned to appear circular at certain points as you circumnavigate the sculpture.
 

Location of artwork

•  Boulevarde Hill, Ruffey Lake Park Doncaster, VIC 3106
•  View on map

About the artist

With a primary interest in perception and site, Natasha Johns-Messenger creates artworks that employ body-scaled architectural interventions and optical techniques to produce a framework responding directly to the site as a pictorial object. 

Johns-Messenger has exhibited internationally including across Asia, America, Europe and Australia, including a solo show at Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2016. Most recently she was awarded the Southern Way McClelland Commission where she will install a new sculpture along the Peninsula Link freeway.

Learn more about Natasha Johns-Messenger

• Website - Natasha Johns-Messenger
• Instagram - @natashajohnsmessenger

Related downloads

Sidle is both an artwork and a shelter, and reflects its local surroundings whilst also asking questions about the global issue of recycling and waste.

The sculpture is made from decommissioned steel slides taken from parks in Manningham. 95 per cent of the structure is made from recycled or up-cycled materials.

Lifted up on extended legs, the slides have been rotated around a central point to create a shelter-like structure. As you walk around the sculpture, its twisted shape creates a sense of movement. It was always intended that the work would be viewed in the round - there is no front or back.

Location of artwork

•  Manningham Civic Centre -  699 Doncaster Road, Doncaster, VIC 3108
•   View on map
   

About the artist

Bellemo and Cat is a Melbourne-based architect/artist partnership. The multi-disciplinary team was established in 1998 by Michael Bellemo and Cat Macleod. Based in Northcote, in inner urban Melbourne, the work of the firm varies widely in both scale - from domestic to the public, and location - from the urban to the rural.

The work of Bellemo and Cat is a wandering line of inquiry back and forth. From the construction of a house to the twisting of a sculpture. It enables them to carry the methods and results of experimentation in both the fields of architecture and sculpture back and forth like busy ants. Resulting in sculptural architectural works and pragmatic approaches to urban design.

Learn more about Bellemo and Cat 

• Website - Bellemo and Cat

Related downloads

HELMET is a fusion of landscape and sculpture that engages with its site and context. 

It functions simultaneously as a gateway, faceted landform, sculpture, screen and viewing device. 

The work embraces both the cultural and natural heritage of the area by utilising the Kelly helmet icon, painted at Heidi, to direct attention to the adjacent historic River Gum and frame the environment of regionally significant Banksia Park.

Location of artwork

• Banksia Park, Manningham Road and Bridge Street, Bulleen, VIC 3105
• Map: View on map

About the artists

Tanya Court is the Director of Tanya Court Projects, a multidisciplinary practice drawing on her landscape architecture and artistic skills. 

With significant professional practice experience specialising in civic and institutional landscapes, many of her design projects winning Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) awards. 

Tanya’s design work is highly regarded with over 15 significant projects designed, documented and constructed in and around Melbourne and Adelaide. 

Cassandra Chilton is a senior leader with over 18 years experience as a landscape architect with a diverse folio of public realm, open space, commercial and urban design works.

To all of these projects she has brought an interest in designing distinctive, sustainable and inviting spaces that elevate the everyday experiences of users and ultimately better connect people to their environments and to each other.

She was a Creative Director for the 2019 International AILA Festival of Landscape Architecture, has guest edited and written regularly for Landscape Australia and Architecture Australia, and is a member of the Melbourne art collective Hotham Street Ladies.

Learn more about Tanya Court and Cassandra Chilton 

• Website - Tanya Court
• Instagram - @the_plants_can_talk

Related downloads

Council Plan 2021-25 was adopted at the Council Meeting on 24 August 2021.

We are developing a new a four year Council Plan, ten year Asset Plan and ten year Financial Plan in pursuit of our Community Vision 2040. A Community Panel will make recommendations to Council on what to include in the Plans.

The Council Plan is our promise to you in pursuit of our community’s vision for the future and to achieve the very best for Manningham.

The Council Plan 2021 – 2025 sets out our priorities and goals over Council’s four year term.

Themes and goals

The Council Plan has five themes and 11 goals.

We have developed actions to deliver outcomes for every goal, for every theme.

Download the Council Plan