Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Preston electorate

Nathan LAMBERT (Preston) (14:55): (983) My question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and my question is: what is the process for getting murals painted on the pylons at Reservoir station? As a tribute to this government’s commitment to the arts, since Reservoir station opened in 2019 we have seen a real expansion of public art in our area, including locals murals by Christine Martin, TextaQueen, Abbey Rich and Olana Janfa, Hayden Dewar and a great one next to the next to Reservoir library by local artist Emily Green. We have also seen new sculptures installed at Keon Park station by Joanne Mott, Preston station by Sanné Mestrom, Bell station by Lisa Waup and further down the track by Lewis Wandin-Bursill, and of course further down there we do see murals by Alex Kerr. We were chatting at a Multicultural Arts Victoria roundtable organised by Lauren Mullings last week about how well that art has been received but also the benefits of retrospectively fitting some art to some of our existing infrastructure, including Reservoir station. Any information the minister could provide us would be greatly appreciated.