On Wednesday September 1st from 3-5pm, students from the Youth Family and Community Connections Inc. will join art students from Parklands High School to complete a mural on the top floor of the Burnie Plaza Carpark, using stencils of the new Burnie Works font to share a message about community working together for positive change.

Burnie Works held events and workshops in June to celebrate the rebrand of the collective impact initiative and invited the community to be part of shared learning opportunities over 3 days.  This public art project was included in the program for youth but was rescheduled until September due to wild weather unsuitable for completing the mural component.

The mural design has been mocked up by artist, Damian Rossiter, well known in Burnie as Gadget's Signs and Murals .  Gadget does a lot of work for the community and is also currently working on the Yellow Brick Road art project with the Burnie Community House, Burnie Child and Family Centre and Burnie Library in Acton, Shorewell Park.

The students involved in this public art project have shared their sentiments about Burnie, what they love about living in Burnie, what’s challenging about living in Burnie and what makes Burnie work in a short film that will be shared with the community with footage from the making of the mural.  The mural, on the top floor of the Burnie Plaza carpark will share a key message from the Burnie Works brand spray painted on by the local students.

Burnie Works community engagement officer Lucy Taylor said projects such as this were important for creating a sense of place for young people.

"Most importantly, the kids are getting amongst upgrading, and making fresh a space in their CBD," she said.

"This is their city, this is their artwork and they're really going to be able to own it. We want everyone to have their fingerprint on it."

Parklands High School student Georgia Moody was one of the artists involved in the work. She said it was exciting to be able to try her hand at spray painting.

Editorial Story from The Advocate newspaper