Creative Road Art Projects

Now Showing: yEAH / dUNNO | Jon Campbell Forty years of painting, flags, neon, tea towels and songs, all in one show. Jon Campbell’s survey exhibition at Geelong Gallery brings together works that use language as visual imagery, drawn from the overheard, the observed and the everyday vernacular of Australian suburban life. The exhibition extends beyond the gallery walls with Campbell’s yEAH / dUNNO wrapping the rear facade and across the Little Malop Street entrance, proving his point that art is everywhere around us. Artist: Jon Campbell | @joncampbellart 📍 Geelong Gallery | @geelonggallery | Naarm/Geelong, Victoria 🗓️ 28 February – 24 May 2026 📷 Image courtesy of @geelonggallery . . . . . #JonCampbell #GeelongGallery #ContemporaryArt #AustralianArt #TextArt

Rochelle Haley × Creative Road We’re working with Sydney-based artist Rochelle Haley on a new commission in the Inner West in Sydney. Her practice spans painting, choreography and installation, exploring how colour, gesture and light interact with the moving body. More details soon. Artist: Rochelle Haley | @rochellehaley Pictured Artwork is a previous works by Rochelle: Temporary Suspended Installation ‘Ever Sun’, 2020 📍 Inner West, Sydney | Gadigal Country . . . . . #CreativeRoad #CreativeRoadArtProjects #RochelleHaley #PublicArt #InnerWestSydney

From Desert Sand to Alpine Snow | Milla Novo Amsterdam-based artist Milla Novo’s large-scale textile installation ‘Ancestral Whispers’ was first commissioned for the Tanweer Festival in Sharjah, UAE. A 10 x 10 metre steel frame rising six metres from the desert floor, housing twenty hand-knotted fibre panels in neon pink, marigold, burnt orange, and sand. Rooted in ancestral craft techniques passed down through her Chilean and Mapuche heritage, the work invited visitors to move through a soft field of colour and texture under open desert sky. From there, Novo imagined the same panels transported to the Alps, visualised through AI as a transparent glass pavilion in a snowfield, where warmth and craft meet silence and cold. The Alpine version is a concept, not yet built. Artist: Milla Novo | @milla_novo_ 📍 Originally installed at Tanweer Festival, Mleiha Desert, Sharjah, UAE 📷 Reimagined concept visualisation courtesy of Milla Novo . . . . . #MillaNovo #TextileArt #FibreArt #InstallationArt #PublicArt

On Now – 25th Biennale of Sydney: Rememory ‘Hearts of Absent Women (Tree of Family)’ by Ema Shin The 25th Biennale of Sydney is open now, and it is one to experience. Titled ‘Rememory’, a word drawn from Toni Morrison’s novel ‘Beloved’, the edition is curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and brings together 83 artists from 37 countries to explore how memory, erasure, and history continue to shape the present. Among the standout works is Melbourne-based textile artist Ema Shin’s monumental woven heart at the Chau Chak Wing Museum. Inspired by a grandfather’s family tree spanning 32 generations that recorded only male names and women who bore sons, ‘Hearts of Absent Women (Tree of Family)’ is a two-metre-tall handwoven sculpture, roughly 1,500 hours in the making, honouring the women erased from her family’s history. Bejewelled, layered, and utterly visceral, the work is both a monument and an act of rememory. Free and open to the public across five venues until 14 June 2026. Artist: Ema Shin | @ema.shin Artistic Director: Hoor Al Qasimi | @hooralq In collaboration with Australian Tapestry Workshop | @austapestry 📍 Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney | Gadigal Country 14 March – 14 June 2026 📷 Daniel Boud | @daniel.boud . . . . . #BiennaleOfSydney #Rememory #EmaShin #PublicArt ContemporaryArt

Now Showing: Newcastle Art Gallery – ‘Iconic, Loved, Unexpected’ After a $48 million expansion and a sixteen-year journey to get there, Newcastle Art Gallery reopened in February as the largest public art institution in New South Wales outside Sydney. The inaugural exhibition ‘Iconic, Loved, Unexpected’ celebrates the gallery’s nationally renowned collection, foregrounding First Nations art, tracing Australian art across more than 200 years, and presenting never-before and rarely seen works across every space in the reimagined building. Anchoring the double-height central atrium is Kinyingarra Guwinyanba (Off Country) (2022) by Quandamooka artist Megan Cope, a suspended installation of oyster reef poles, each adorned with shells collected and cleaned by community members. Rooted in long-held First Nations knowledge of oysters as critical to sea Country, the work invites a sense of buoyancy and multiple perspectives. Artist: Megan Cope | @nutmegandhoney 📍 Newcastle Art Gallery | @newcastleartgalleryaustralia | Mulubinba/Newcastle, NSW Image: Matt Carbone | @carbone courtesy Newcastle Art Gallery . . . . . #MeganCope #NewcastleArtGallery #FirstNationsArt #PublicArt #ContemporaryArt

Our latest Newsletter is live! Here’s a quick round-up of what we’ve been up to. Our new website is live, ‘Flutter’ by @jadearieloakley is fabricated and ready to be installed at Caloundra Library, and we’ve just announced the first three artists for the Joseph Street Precinct in Lidcombe. @billy_bain , @jasonphuu , and @claudia__nicholson will each bring something distinct to what’s shaping up to be a really interesting program. There’s more in our latest newsletter, including a look at @shireen_taweel ’s shortlisted concept for St Georges Hospital. Link in bio. . . . . . #CreativeRoad #CreativeRoadArtProjects #PublicArt #ContemporaryArt #PublicArtStrategy

New Public Artwork — ‘Upside-Down Garden’ | Jumaadi A garden of hybrids, ghosts and memory, now installed at Barangaroo South in Sydney. Indonesian-Australian artist Jumaadi has unveiled ‘Upside-Down Garden’, his first permanent public artwork, suspended within the through-site link of International House at Barangaroo South. Hanging sculptural metalwork forms, a wedding gown wrapped around a tree, a winged man carrying landscape within his body, a pineapple, a woman’s hair. A world drawn from myth, personal memory, traditional Javanese shadow puppetry and the artist’s own visual language. A soundscape by composer Michael Toisuta, keyed to sunrise, midday, dusk and approaching midnight, activates the work throughout each day. Artist: Jumaadi | @jumaadi_jumaadi Commissioned by: Lendlease | @lendlease in partnership with @nswdphi Curated by: Holly Williams + Glenn Barkley, The Curators’ Department Soundscape: Michael Toisuta 📍 Mercantile Walk, Barangaroo South | Gadigal Country, Sydney 📷 Mark Pokorny, courtesy the artist and Lendlease . . . . . #Jumaadi #PublicArt #Barangaroo #PermanentArt #ContemporaryArt

Now Showing: ‘Threads of Life’ | Chiharu Shiota Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota takes over the upper floor of the Hayward Gallery in London with ‘Threads of Life’. Known for her monumental room-scale installations of intricately woven wool thread, Shiota envelops everyday objects such as keys, beds, doors, dresses in dense webs that make the invisible visible. Pictured is ‘The Locked Room’ (2026), in which thousands of old keys hang suspended within floor-to-ceiling red wool, a pair of wooden doors standing open at its centre. The red thread carries the symbolism of the East Asian myth of the Red String of Fate, the idea that those destined to meet are invisibly bound from birth. Throughout the exhibition, new commissions sit alongside early performance documentation and a body of drawings, building a comprehensive portrait of one of the most compelling installation artists working today. Artist: Chiharu Shiota | @chiharushiota Curator: Yung Ma | @mrhorseyung 📍 Hayward Gallery | @hayward.gallery | London On until 3 May 2026. 📷 Mark Blower, courtesy Hayward Gallery . . . . . #LondonArt #Exhibition #Gallery #PublicArt #Sculpture

Now Showing: ‘ARTIST ROOMS — Jenny Holzer’ Pioneering American artist Jenny Holzer uses text as her primary medium and has done so for over 50 years. Her work has appeared on posters, T-shirts, carved stone, electronic signs and large-scale projections, confronting themes of war, power, sexual violence and truth in public spaces and galleries around the world. ‘ARTIST ROOMS: Jenny Holzer’ is currently on at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe UK and is housed in the stunning former St John’s Church. Artist: Jenny Holzer | @jennyholzerstudio Presented in partnership with: @tate + @nationalgalleriesscot 📍 20-21 Visual Arts Centre | @2021visualarts | Scunthorpe On now until 13 June 2026 Image: courtesy Tate / Jenny Holzer, ARS New York . . . . . #JennyHolzer #ArtistRooms #ContemporaryArt #TextArt #PublicArt

New website, now live. It opens with a short film cutting across projects old and new, then takes you through the full scope of what we do, from strategy and artist selection through to fabrication and installation. Link in bio. . . . . . Video by Olivia Mair Music by @u.pper90

Vertical Highways V03 | Bettina Pousttchi German artist Bettina Pousttchi recently installed ‘Vertical Highways V03’ as a temporary installation in the Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center, New York, transforming reconfigured highway guardrails into a monumental rhythmic sculpture. Stripped of their original function, these familiar roadside barriers are recomposed as vertical forms that suggest movement without directing it. The work continues Pousttchi’s long-standing investigation into how urban infrastructure shapes perception, with previous iterations of the ‘Vertical Highway’s series installed at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, Berlin Central Station, and Istanbul. The New York presentation marks the series’ first appearance in the US, entering into dialogue with Rockefeller Center’s nearly century-long commitment to public art. Artist: Bettina Pousttchi | @bettinapousttchi 📍 Channel Gardens, Rockefeller Center | New York | @rockefellercenter Image: Guillaume Ziccarelli | @guillaume.ziccarelli . . . . . #PublicArt #BettinaPousttchi #RockefellerCenter #UrbanArt #Sculpture

Closing Soon – ‘in the end, the beginning’ | Arcangelo Sassolino Matter pushed to its absolute limit. Italian sculptor Arcangelo Sassolino’s first solo exhibition in Australia is on now at MONA, Hobart and closes this Sunday 6 April. Spanning six kinetic sculptures, ‘in the end, the beginning’ subjects steel, wood, glass, granite and rubber to heat, pressure, and gravity, holding each material at its breaking point without ever quite letting it break. The title work sees molten steel heated to 1500°C drip from the ceiling in cascades of firelight, a reimagining of his celebrated Venice Biennale installation. Elsewhere, a hydraulic cylinder slowly splinters a timber beam, a granite boulder bows glass without shattering it, and a car tyre is squeezed to the edge of collapse. Nothing is stable. Everything is on the verge. If you’re in Hobart, don’t miss it. Artist: Arcangelo Sassolino | @arcangelosassolino Pin: MONA, Museum of Old and New Art | @monamuseum | Nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania Closing Sunday 6 April 2026 Image courtesy of MONA . . . . . #ArcangeloSassolino #MONA #SculptureNow #ContemporaryArt #Hobart