Water Walls - urban artwork on Water and Waste assets

The City’s Water and Waste (WW) Directorate is continuing the program, ‘Water Walls’, to combat graffiti and enhance the visual appeal of prominent WW assets across the city.

The purpose of this project is to transform ordinary assets into visually appealing works of art while targeting graffiti hotspots.

Intent

enhance the visual appeal of WW assets
showcase the talents of local artists
cover existing graffiti on assets
reduce the likelihood of new or recurring graffiti attacks.

The intent of this programme is to cover exiting graffiti on the assets where present and reduce the likelihood of new or recurring graffiti attacks.

Assets

Artists will transform the facades of selected assets and buildings including sewer pump stations, switchboard cabinets and water reservoirs by implementing beautification methods such as painting or wrapping assets in laminated artwork designs.

The following sewer pump stations are the next Water and Waste assets to undergo the Water Walls transformation for 2019:

PS D6 - Falkinder Avenue, Paradise Point, Division 3
PS D14 - Morala Avenue, Runaway Bay, Division 4
PS A78 - Corner Stanhill Drive and Mawarra Street, Surfers Paradise, Division 7
PS B19 - Duringan Street, Currumbin, Division 14

Phase one

The first round of assets were delivered in 2017 and included:

A mural at sewer pump station building A5, located on the corner of Via Roma and Remembrance Drive, Surfers Paradise.
19 sewer pump station cabinets across the city had laminated artwork wraps installed.

Phase two

Suburb	Division	Streets affected
Oxenford	2	Old Pacific Highway
Hollywell Runaway Bay Hope Island	3	Bayview Street Matthew Flinders Drive Lae Drive Morala Avenue Pendraat Parade
Labrador	4	Musgrave Avenue Brisbane Road
Nerang Molendinar Pacific Pines	5	Mortensen Road Southport Nerang Road Pacific Pines Boulevard
Southport	6	Marine Parade
Main Beach	7	Waterways Drive Seaworld Drive
Carrara	8	Nerang Broadbeach Road
Broadbeach	10	TE Peters Drive Eady Avenue
Burleigh Heads	12	Gold Coast Highway The Esplanade George Street West Vantage Point Drive Wairoo Street
Elanora Palm Beach	13	Murtha Drive Gold Coast Highway Guineas Creek Road
Currumbin Waters	14	Guineas Creek Road Galleon Way

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