Karingal Hub Arts Trail
Precinct Artworks & Interior Design
LOCATION
Karingal Hub
Frankston, Victoria
CLIENT
ISPT
ARTISTS
Abbey Rich, Benja Harney, Claire Foxton, Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Lauren Carney, Studio Dennis, Tristan Kerr
PHOTOGRAPHY
Trystin Sinnott
The Project
Authority Creative curated and produced a multi-disciplinary Arts Trail integrated throughout Karingal Hub, facilitating the connection of people and place, and encouraging customers to dwell and discover. We worked with the artists to create murals, sculptural installations, furniture and more, with a mixture of bright and subdued hues carrying throughout each connecting space of the hub, bringing land and sea together.
Karingal, translating to ‘Happy Home’ in Koori Language underpins the energy of Karingal Hub; a place for play and connection. Situated amongst nature reserves and surrounded by sea, Franskton’s Karingal Hub is a unique place for curiosity to thrive amongst its community of farmers, families, outdoor enthusiasts and creatives.
Karingal Hub
Karingal Hub is situated at the gateway of the Mornington Peninsula in Frankston, Victoria. It is a place typically filled with the bustle of families and locals, both young and established. The surrounding area has an abundance of space where the residents’ lifestyle is influenced by the outdoors including bush lands, wineries, farms, parklands and seaside such as Port Phillip Bay.
The Artists
BENJA HARNEY
Benja Harney (Paperform) is a paper engineer. Working both in Australia and internationally, he is renowned as a pioneer in his field, pushing the possibilities of paper as a medium. Benja’s sculptural ceiling installation for Karingal Hub features local foliage and floral iconography fabricated with recycled materials sourced from the community. By adding value to these unwanted and forgotten items, Benja has created a layered story of place for Karingal Hub.
TRISTAN KERR
Tristan Kerr (born Melbourne, 1985) is an artist and typographer whose work reflects on cultural diversity, consumerism and advertising, and the tensions between subjects who exist within these worlds, as he combines fragments of street signage, mark making, graffiti and abstraction through his works. Tristan’s works encourage people to stop, look and question their surroundings, considering other possibilities for what public space might constitute. Tristan’s punchy text based mural at Karingal Hub leads shoppers towards the Town Square.
ANDREW DENNIS
Andrew Dennis, also known as Studio Dennis, is an artist living and working in the sub tropics of Sydney since 2000. His practice draws from a diverse range of influences including 20th century art, low-brow comics, skateboard culture. Andrew creates decorative wallpaper like murals that deal in subjects such as civilisation, future living, bio domes and animal behaviour. Responding to the site of Karingal Hub, Andrew created an organic, fluid and floral focused mural.
CLAIRE FOXTON
Claire Foxton is an Australian artist and designer who is most known for her large body of public art found across Australia, New Zealand and the United States. With a distinctive mix of abstract and realistic techniques, Claire’s painted mural works explore a site specific narrative often concerned with the connectedness of people and place. For Karingal Hub, Claire integrated locally found species of flora and fauna into her murals, drawing the viewer into a deeper conversation responding to land, story & identity.
