Burwood Banners Expression of Interest

Project Overview

Burwood Council is seeking to commission a new artwork design for the Burwood’s Banner Program. For the commission, Council is seeking to work with both an Aboriginal artist as well as a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) artist to co-design and create the artwork. Council’s engagement with the local community has consistently highlighted that Burwood’s culturally diverse communities have a strong desire to further connect with and understand First Nations cultures. In seeking to further this dialogue, Council wishes to engage with both First Nations and CALD identifying artist/s for this project.

Council is open to commissioning a solo artist who identifies with both communities or artists can apply together or separately for the project and Council will pair two artist together to meet project cultural requirements.

The design will be licenced for a period of three years in the Burwood Banner Program. The successful artist/s will be required to work with Dharawal Elder Auntie Deborah Lennis through an initial workshop meeting and ongoing feedback throughout the design development process.

Key deliverables

• A hero design need to be able to extend over 3 street banners which forms a series and be formatted the following banner sizes:

• 1500x4500mm
• 1500x4000mm
• 900x1800mm
• 800x2500mm
• 800x2000mm
• 1000x3000mm

• The three banners need to be delivered as a PDF with a 20mm bleed and cut marks across the six sizes (18 PDF files in total)
• Must include the Burwood Logo at the bottom, size and position negotiable upon design
  
  

Timeline

• Submissions Due: 5 March 2025  
• Artist/s commissioned: 12 March 2025
• Initial design presented to Council: 7 April 2025
• Final digital artworks provided to Council: 21 April 2025
• Banners first installed: July 2025
  
  

Total project budget: $12,000+GST, inclusive of two rounds of design changes. This fee is inclusive of all artist fees associated with the project.

Application Process

• Examples of artwork (up to six images) which indicates artistic style and approach
• A written outline of a conceptual idea and approach to the project including artistic techniques and style indication (maximum 400 words)
• Confirmation if you can commit to the proposed timeline.

All submissions must be emailed to arts@burwood.nsw.gov.au by 5.00PM 5 March 2025. 

Artwork Credit: Yenmara bembul-ra (walking on earth) by JK Koori Designs (Jasmine Sarin) and Yukupin (Toby Bishop) installed in Burwood Park.