Enough Space For All Shapes
Community Mural and Moving Image Commission

Broken Hill City Council
12 metre x 2.4 metre Mural, Moving Image Work
2023

‘Enough space for all shapes’ is a community lead mural, and moving image commission, designed in collaboration with a diverse group of young people from the Broken Hill community. 

As the title of the work suggests, the project is a celebration of how young members of the community feel about the place they call home. 

The work was developed following intensive workshop I created in October 2022, where participants created 4 art making activities that helped us understand some of the benefits, challenges and possibilities of life as a young person in Broken Hill. Represented in the workshop group were people of differing abilities, different sexualities, diverse gender identities, lifetime citizens, and a brand new member of the community who’d only lived in Broken Hill for 3 months. 

After lengthy discussions in the workshops about restrictive representation of disabled people, and different sexualities and gender identities, it was important to the participants that the work didn’t present any ‘ideals’ of body forms or gender. While this at first appeared to be a creative constraint it became the launching pad for the work, and it’s distinct use of shape, form and pattern. 

Mural workshops followed in January 2023, where we spent a few really fun days working together painting the mural. It was so great to hang out with these young people and talk about the world they want to make. 

The project was funded through The Office of Regional Youth NSW, and Broken Hill City Council.