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Gateways Commission Artist Briefing

Overview of presentations
 Introduction – Jolie Clifford – 5 mins
 Procurement Overview – presented by Matthew Farrow – 10 mins
 Artist Brief Overview – presented by Professor Jay Younger – 20 mins
 Technical considerations – Presented by Craig Perkins – 10 mins
 Open Q&A – 15 mins

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Project Objectives
The purpose of this project is to:
• enhance GC2018™ and Gold Coast cultural experience;
• facilitate navigational ease and sense of arrival to the Gold Coast; and
• extend the benefits of arts and culture on the Gold Coast as a legacy of GC2018™.

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Project Overview
Budget - $2 million
Sites - Two sites at northern and southern gateways to the city – located in high traffic zones
Installation completion - November 2017

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LG Tender Box

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Invitation to Offer

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Stages

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Documents

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The Gateways
In keeping with the integrity of the artist’s visual language - visually bold and expressive - memorable and visible.
The artist’s concept for the artwork needs to:
• embrace aspects or visual signifiers of regional identity with an understanding that the City of Gold Coast identity is multiple, unfixed,
and shifting
• express a concept befitting the future of the city (given that the artwork is to last 50 years)
• express gateway, threshold, or liminal sensibilities; provide an arrival and departure view/experience
• provide a visual experience appropriate to driving viewers which heightens the perception of transition through the gateway to the City
• act as a welcome landmark or beacon for residents, travellers and commuters to the Gold Coast; engage ‘audiences’ in feelings of
homecoming or anticipation in response to an emotional sense of place
• take form as a singular tall sculpture, a series of related sculptural elements, or as a flat panel/ screen-like elements or any
combination of these in the two linked (North and South) gateway sites
• be designed to playfully engage with audiences through digital/social media *(N.B. This artwork attribution is not essential).

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Curatorial Context
The key questions to be addressed in the process of conceiving the artist’s concept design:
• How might regional specificities/identities be expressed?
• How might an artwork signify a Gateway?

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 Anthony Gormley
Angel of the North
Newcastle-Gateshead, UK. 1998
Commissioned by Gateshead Council, UK
20m high x 54m across.
Steel (200 tonnes)
£800,000

• created by a highly acclaimed artist;

• concept – empathy for the transition that the Gateshead community needed to make and
the colliery working class history of the region; made from corten steel in keeping with the
Tyneside engineering vernacular of ships and the Tyne Bridge;
• representational (angel + aeroplane wings);
• initially met with controversy and not long after its construction considered extremely
successful – arts led regeneration, popular with residents and media, and tourism (visited
by 150,000 per annum) and highly visible from M1 ( 90,000 drivers per day see the
artwork).
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 Denton Corker Marshall Archtects
Melbourne International Gateway
City exit, Flemington Melbourne
1999
Commissioned by Victoria State Govt
70m yellow steel beam and 39 red
‘sticks’
Steel
Cost unpublished.

• designed by architects Denton Corker Marshall;

• concept – yellow pillars represent the Victorian Gold Rush and the red ‘sticks’ represent
the wheat industry of Australia;
• boom-gate in the ‘up’ position;
• formalist design that frames the road, kinetic without being animated, flashes of light and
shade as the driver moves through the space (30 sec driving experience);
• initially public/media derision, but soon after accepted as an icon;
• nickname ‘the cheese stick and the rig cage’.

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a multiplicity of regional identities
Anna Carey, Cultural Precinct Masterplan, Craig Walsh Projections for Bleach.

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Timeline

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How will artists/artist teams be selected?
From the Stage 1A submissions up to 5 artists/artists teams will be selected.

The selected artists will then move into Stage 1B – to create concept designs. This is a competitive
process.

In the Stage 1A submission you need to address:

Lead Artist Experience

Collaborative Project Experience.

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How will artists/artist teams be selected?
The criteria for Stage 1A

Evidence of an artistic practice that demonstrates:

• high artistic merit and unique visual language
• resolution of complex/layered concepts and/or forms
• ability, experience or potential to realise large, iconic scale artworks suitable to the
GPAC context
• an ability or potential to translate concepts into materials, fabrication methods and
techniques appropriate to public art applications

Evidence of previous experience devising art projects with collaborative teams to deliver
artwork in adherence to project objectives, artistic vision, budget and program.

Above two criteria total 83%

Mandatory Local Business and Industry 15% (various set scores up to 15%)
Gold Coast Business Awards 2% (either Yes or No)

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Stage 1A Submission - Lead Artist Experience

• CV for lead artist, maximum two pages

• Visual examples of past work – five – 10 images in PowerPoint presentation with titles, material, dimensions,
year included for each slide. (overall file size not to exceed 10MB)

• Outline the basic concepts that underpin the conceptual and material basis of your artistic practice. up to 250
words

• Discuss how your previous artwork has been, or has the potential to be, translated into large iconic artworks
suitable to the GPAC context. up to 250 words

• Outline previous projects where you have evidenced the translation of materials to suit a specific context or
public art context. up to 250 words

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Stage 1A Submission - Collaborative Project Experience
There are two options that the artist or artist team may take in responding to this criterion. You may respond
as an artist who has not yet formulated their team or as an artist who has formulated their team. (An artist’s
team may include gallery director, project manager, architect, engineers, fabricators etc.. )

1. Individual Artist Submission:

• Please outline project teams and skill mix that you have collaborated with previously and how you intend to
build a team for this project. up to 150 words

• Please outline two previous projects to demonstrate your experience working with team members to deliver
collaborate projects of similar complexity with specific mention of adherence to project objectives, artistic
vision, budget and program. up to 150 words each project

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Stage 1A Submission - Collaborative Project Experience
OR

2. Artist Team Submission

• Please include CVs and written agreement to participate in the project from each proposed team members.
(1 page CV each)

• Outline two previous projects to demonstrate experience of team members to deliver collaborative projects
of similar complexity with specific mention of adherence to project objectives, artistic vision, budget and
program. up to 150 words each project

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Who will select the artist/artist teams?

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Selection Panel
Representation Who/How
Public Art Reference Group Group to run nomination and voting process

Indigenous Representative Wesley Aird

Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Cassandra Denney

representative
Representative for Gold Coast Tracey Cooper-Lavery

Representative for State and Office of TBC

Commonwealth Games
Curatorial Consultant Professor Jay Younger

CoGC Procurement Category Specialist – Public Art

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North Site

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North Site

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North Site

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Accessing the north site
• Four lanes north, four lanes south, 110km/hr
• TRM are likely to approve works only between the hours of 8pm and 5am
• Site access requires closure of one right lane north bound and one right lane south bound
• All of the above subject to Traffic Management Plan and approval by TMR

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South Site
• The southern site is subject to change. Further feasibility scoping is underway and a final site will be
confirmed for Artists invited to Stage 1B.
• Current preferred location shown in Artist Brief

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South Site

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South Site

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South Site

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Accessing the south site
• Two lanes north, two lanes south, 80km/hr
• TRM are likely to approve works only between the hours of 8pm and 5am
• Site access requires closure of right lane north bound and right lane south bound
• All of the above subject to Traffic Management Plan and approval by TMR

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Design considerations
• Safety of road users is the primary constraint to the artwork design
• Collaboration with a traffic engineer will be required in order to design the artwork within traffic constraints and
the budget
• Structural requirements – non frangible
• Final approval is required from TMR who will require all information used in the design process
• Underground and above ground services
• Stormwater and site drainage
• Geotechnical conditions
• Foundations allowing for off site fabrication and bolt on of artwork
• 50 year lifespan with minimal to no maintenance
• Lighting and illumination limitations
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Certification
• Structural engineer to certify design, fabrication, construction and installation
• Traffic Engineer report to TMR for the artwork itself and for the design of traffic barriers and
deflection devices
• Traffic engineer to certify design, fabrication, construction and installation
• Lighting engineer design report on illumination levels and controls

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Submission and Contact
All submissions must be completed electronically via the LG Tenderbox online portal:
W: www.lgtenderbox.com.au
By 11am AEST 23 December.

For tender enquiries, please contact City of Gold Coast’s procurement representative:
E: source2contract@goldcoast.qld.gov.au

For assistance with LG Tenderbox, please contact

P: 1800 779 027
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www.moregoldcoast.com.au/publicart
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