Public Art Trail 2025

01 Feb 2022 - 31 Dec 2025 FREE Melbourne City

Public Art Trail 2025

01 Feb 2022 - 31 Dec 2025

FREE

Melbourne City

Get involved in a series of fun, participatory, student-created artworks on campus.

What is the Public Art Trail?

RMIT Public Art Trail welcomes you back to RMIT with a series of participatory artworks focussed on finding your place and forging connections.

Each of the public artworks was created by an RMIT student with support from RMIT Creative Student Life.

This initiative was originally developed as part of a cross-college undergraduate elective, Public Art Projects within Design and Social Context (DSC).

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Public Art Trail Showreel 2024

What are the Public Art Trail Projects?

yellow neon signs with positive messages

The Bright Signs by Emi Uili

The Bright Signs is an installation artwork for anyone who has ever felt disheartened or doubtful. Our inner monologues including self-talk and the internalised voices of others can shape our emotions and actions and leave a lasting impact. The Bright Signs seeks to empower students to believe in themselves and practice positive self-talk.

Location: Level 4, Building 10, City campus

Dunking Your Doubts by Joshua Sullivan

We all have doubts from time to time – that inner critic who never seems satisfied. Dunking Your Doubts is about getting any negative or overly critical thoughts, worries or doubts out of your head and onto a piece of paper. From here, you’re invited to scrunch up the paper with your doubts into a ball, dunk them through the basketball hoop and straight into the bin where they belong! Take that inner critic!

Location: Level 3, Building 10, City Campus (next to the escalator)

Connect The Dots by Sophie Yvette StavrakisGlimpses of Home by Caryn Vianka

Connect the Dots is an interactive public artwork that embraces a spirit of adventure and curiosity. Find stories from people who study, work, and share knowledge in RMIT’s City North Precinct that have been made visible on bright yellow dots scattered over the precinct. There's no start or finish - just exploration!

Location: RMIT Campus City North Prescinct

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Sticking Together by Marvis Ngoc Khanh Truong

Sticking Together is a participatory art experience that uses the act of personalising and gifting stickers as an adhesive to cement new friendships. Popping up at events across campus including Orientation welcome events and the Creative Long Table Sessions, Sticking Together invites students to meet a new friends.

Location: Long tables between the RMIT Store and RUSU, City Campus

Light Lines by Tin Chunting Wu

Light Lines is a nature-inspired creative meditation practice that invites students to take time to notice the beauty of the natural world. The artwork consists of a facilitated experience where participating students observe the movement of shadows cast by trees, nature and each other across the architecture of RMIT and trace these shadows using chalk.

Location: Outside of Building 66, City North Campus (Earl St.)

ConnectUs by Jade Armstrong

Orientation. Meeting new people. Conversations. These can be overwhelming and daunting. Yet, it’s how new friendships begin. ConnectUs is a bespoke game made using Connect4 as a template with conversation prompts added to each of the tokens. The conversation prompts have been carefully designed by the student artist using psychologists research into forming meaningful human connections.

Note: ConnectUs is only available on certain days

Clay Play by Jessica Dybing

Clay Play invites students to sculpt colourful therapy clay into a form that resonates with them and then place their clay avatar on a map of RMIT City campus. A looping time lapse video of all the colourful clay avatars filling up the campus map will be projected on screens around campus.

Note: Clay Play is only available on certain days

Long Table Sessions

The Long Table Sessions are a low-key event series for students to drop-in, hang out, and get creative! There is no pressure to stay for the whole time. No materials or prior creative experience required – this is open to anyone and everyone. You don't have to be an artist. Rock up to use all of our materials and be guided by gentle facilitation, or bring along something of your own that you’ve been working on!

Location: Building 12, Level 4, Long tables between the RMIT Store and RUSU, City Campus

Slow Down by Anaya Shahid

Slow Down invites students to participate in slow mindful collage workshops. Setting an intention for your wellbeing and allowing space to create uncritically is a lovely way to practice being present. Collaborative mindful collage created by students during Orientation and the Creative Long Table Sessions will then be curated into larger collage works by student artist Anaya to be scaled up and installed across campus.

Location: Building 78 and the Creative Long table Sessions

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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