MAKING THE METRO TUNNEL / DOMAIN HOUSE, 2023
The Metro Tunnel Creative Program partnered with the Royal Botanic Gardens, to offer four Melbourne artists rare access the State Botanical Collection at the National Herbarium of Victoria. Artists Caitlin Klooger, Tai Snaith, Dianna Wells and Oliver Ashworth-Martin created diverse responses to the Herbarium collection. Three of the artwork concepts have subsequently been reproduced as major hoarding artworks displayed around the Anzac Station construction site adjacent to the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria’s Melbourne site.
‘Making the Metro Tunnel: reflections by contemporary Australian artists’ captures the process of building this massive city-shaping rail project through artworks that respond to the project’s construction, as well as a creative partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
Photographs: Charlie Kinross
Lumen prints, from the Anzac Station Hoarding artwork Walking within a grassy woodland. Photographs: Charlie Kinross
