Policy & Planning

Artfully seeks to integrate art and creative practices at the highest organisational levels through producing policy and planning frameworks. Beth to write small intro para.

Stuart Green, All Eyes On Us - The Commonwealth Star 2018
Artfully was engaged by the City of Gold Coast to undertake a major review of the City’s Public Art Policy and Procedures. The process has involved extensive stakeholder consultation across Council. The Procedures are a comprehensive guide to all aspects of public art commissioning and collection management in a local government environment. Image: Stuart Green, All Eyes On Us – The Commonwealth Star 2018

In taking a consultative and interdisciplinary approach, these frameworks are designed to extend and complement existing policies and strategic plans from within organisations or between organisations in order to identify, deliver and build upon shared goals and objectives.



A range of methods are brought to the process including desk-based research, benchmarking, statistical profiling, stakeholder consultation, community surveys and special interest group workshops. Frameworks incorporate implementation recommendations and analysis including potential funding mechanisms and a staged program of deliverables.

Selected Clients

  • City of Gold Coast – Public Art Policy and Procedures Review
  • City of Hobsons Bay – Temporal Public Art Festivals Survey
  • City of Maribyrnong Public Art Strategy 2019-29
  • Brisbane City Council – Botanica –Opportunity Report & Implementation Plan;
    
Public Art Strategies: Kingfisher Creek Open Space Network & Coorparoo Creek Park
  • City of Launceston – Public Art Strategy 2023-2031
  • City of Brimbank Public Art Policy & Plan 2018-2023
  • City of Redlands – Cleveland Capalaba Cycleway –Art Opportunity Report
  • City of Wyndham – Victorian local government public art provisions – A Survey Study
City of Maribyrnong Public Art Strategy 2019-2029
Artfully was engaged by the City of Maribyrnong to develop a ten-year Public Art Strategy to focus and guide the City’s public art commissioning processes and programs. Extensive community consultation was undertaken with both internal and external stakeholders, including the local arts community.
City of Launceston Public Art Strategy 2023-2031
Artfully was engaged by the City of Launceston to develop an eight-year Public Art Strategy for the inner city and Greater Launceston. The Strategy forms part of Launceston’s Cultural Strategy and aligns with and delivers on key planning frameworks. A vision statement, a set of objectives and principles, and a curatorial framework frame the Strategy. The Strategy identifies a core program of opportunities with sets of key recommendations, informed by national and international benchmarking research and a stakeholder consultation process involving more than 300 community members. A Management section outlines professional best practice. A set of action plans, based on the Strategy objectives, set out implementation over an eight-year period in a supplementary report.