The GreenWay is an inspirational place for arts projects and community involvement.
The GreenWay Public Art program has curated eight new public artworks which transform this urban green corridor into a place that inspires visitors and residents to encounter cultural heritage and contemporary life, express deeper connection to place, engage with local stories, diverse communities, and natural ecosystems. The artworks explore themes of, and collaborate with, the natural environment, local rail history and native flora and fauna.
Find out more at the GreenWay Public Art website.
TreeCycle by Graham Chalcroft has a strong urbane quality, utilising the combination of a highly engineered structure which forms the artist’s interpretation of recreating a “tree” with recycled bicycle parts forming the tree canopy. Graham describes TreeCycle as "a fun, iconic and consolidated form which encapsulates the essence of the GreenWay in a singular powerful statement".
Location: Canal Road, Lilyfield (beside the City West Link)
Hawthorne Canal Mosaic Mural was an Artist led project and collaboration between community volunteers, Railcorp, Leichhardt Council, and community groups. Led by Artists Noula Diamantopoulos and April Keogh, it commenced in 2005 and was completed in 2011. Volunteers aged from 4 to 75 worked on the project contributing over 5,000 hours of time creatively placing over 475,000 mosaic on its walls. Before it was installed this tunnel was miserable, dark and vandalised. Now it is a glowing example of community art and best practice community safety intervention.
44 Mosaic panels are located in a 112 square metre pedestrian tunnel located near Hawthorne Canal in Leichhardt. The tunnel leads from Lords Road, Leichhardt (adjacent to Kegworth Public School under the Rozelle Goods Line) to the Hawthorne Canal footpath network.
Take a walk or hop on your bike to see the Hawthorne Canal community artwork for yourself.
Participants included: Kegworth Public, St Fiacres Primary, St Columbus Primary, St Joan of Arc Primary, Leichhardt Public School, and the Leichhardt Campus of Sydney Secondary College. Sydney College of the Arts were also involved with the Ceramics Department stepping in and firing the many of the ceramic sea creatures. The Department developed a new kiln firing technique for the artwork, using recycled glass to form the seaweed. Community mosaic sessions ran at Noula Diamantopoulos' studio in Rozelle for over three and a half years.
Watch the film of the project evolution by UTS student Katherine Buskariol.
A colourful mosaic celebrating local flora, fauna, and waterways.
Leading artist: Noula Diamantopoulos and April Keogh
Location: Hawthorne Canal, Leichhardt
The Gadigal Wangal Wayfinding project describes components of Aboriginal history using visual means, and through these beautiful artworks we celebrate the continuing presence of Aboriginal people within the inner west. These award winning works add to the wider public art collection and represent features and histories of Gadigal Wangal Lands, deepening our connection to place, and enriching our knowledge of a pre- and post-colonised inner west.
You can find more information and a video about the mural here.
The Art Prize was established in 2010 to capture the essence of the Greenway through visual art and to celebrate the vibrancy, creativity and community spirit of the Inner West.
This is a national prize, open to all artists submitting work within the terms of the prize.
The GreenWay Street Libraries Project has been jointly commissioned by Inner West Council and The GreenWay Program.
The project invited submissions by artists with a sculptural focus to propose designs to embellish the street library structures.
The locations for the street libraries are as follows:
- Café Bones, Hawthorne Canal Reserve (near Hawthorne light rail stop)
- Johnson Park, Dulwich Hill (near Arlington light rail stop)