Maroondah Council is creating an art trail in Ringwood in the lead-up to the R and M McGivern Prize

Art lovers are in for a treat with a new trail showing off street art in Melbourne’s east to be created this month. Find out what items are going to be painted and where.

Artist Zac Bunston by his mural under the railbridge in Wantirna Rd, Ringwood. Picture: Lawrence Pinder.

Ringwood is set to get its own art trail in the lead-up to the presentation of Maroondah Council’s art award.

Six signal boxes between REALM and Maroondah Federation Estate will be decorated to coincide with the 2019 R and M McGivern Prize.

Both venues will host the exhibition containing entries for this year’s prize, which will open on November 23.

Celeste Chandler won the R and M McGivern prize worth $15,000 in 2009.

The trail will go past the Ringwood Clocktower and underneath the railbridge on Wantirna Rd which contains street art honouring the region’s war servicemen and servicewomen.

It will cost $10,000 and was instigated by the Maroondah Arts Advisory Committee.

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Maroondah Cr Mike Symon, the council’s representative on the committee, said the trail would “brighten the place up and give people something to look at along the way”.

“If you have a box there covered in graffiti it looks horrible, but if you can do it up a bit, it’s a nice change,” Cr Symon said.

The $25,000 art prize is awarded every three years and this year’s theme is ‘Anthropocene’.

Cr Kylie Spears said the council would call for photographic and digital artworks linking to the prize’s theme to use on the trail in the coming months.

Cr Spears said the council might also put art on other signal boxes across Maroondah in the future depending on the initiative’s success.

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