Energies at Play
Public Art Commission: Street-Print for car parks at footpaths. Date: 2022 completion, Venue: Pimpama Sports and Community Precinct, Gold Coast.
Construction of the netball court car park and surrounding parklands at the Pimpama Sports and Community Precinct, 2021. Photo documents the commencement of installing Ali Bezer’s Street-print stencil art titled Energies at Play (Orange motifs in the Northern car park. Photo: Ali Bezer, 2021.
Project Description
In 2019, a curated competition was held among select artists to submit designs for a public art commission at the Pimpama Sports and Community precinct. The selection process was highly competitive and two artists were chosen for their submissions. I was awarded the artist responsible for injecting vibrancy into the outdoor spaces of the precinct, particularly the car parks and footpaths connecting the parklands with sporting facilities. The artwork I created is titled Energies at play (2019-2022), and is created using Street-Print to represent vibrations made as people go about various activities at the precinct. This includes concentric ripples I imagined being produced from balls bouncing on the netball courts or people diving in the pools, as well as elongated pulses signifying the spikes and declines in people’s energy outputs when walking, running, swimming, and resting.
Installation documentation of Ali Bezer’s Street-print stencils, applied to the Netball car park by Brink’n’Pave. The photo shows the second coat ( of four coats) of orange Streetbond paint applied with a spray gun.
"Energies at Play" (Concentric motif) in situ - Netball car park, 2022.
"Energies at Play" (Concentric motifs) in situ- Aquatic car park, 2022.
"Energies at Play" (Concentric motifs) in situ - Aquatic center, 2022.
"Energies at Play" in situ photograph, Aquatic centre, 2022
Blue concentric motif detail on asphalt
"Energies at Play" (Concentric motif) in situ- Netball car park, 2022.
"Energies at Play" ( Concentric motifs) in situ - Aquatic car park, 2022
"Energies at Play" (Alternate Pulses) Main Entrance pathway, 2022.
"Energies at Play" (Red Pulse 10 meters), in situ-main pathway, 2022.
"Red Pulse 10 meters", alternative view
"Energies at Play" (Orange Pulse 5 meters) in situ- main entrance pathway, 2022.