The challenge

Transurban approached Spatial Media seeking a solution to celebrate their investment in the Public Art Program and to give back to the community with an interactive art education experience. The program includes eighteen signature artworks including contemporary sculpture, artist-designed playgrounds, large-scale murals, a writers walk and an immersive lighting installation.

Our solution

The client wanted to create a unique sub-brand identity for the arts program, to be able to run an art competition for school children. Furthermore, the solution needed to creatively visually communicate the artworks and the story behind them, with educational resources in an appealing engaging experience targeted at students and teachers.

Named ‘Canal to Creek’ after the waterways that connect the art sites, each work is a site-specific exploration of the relationship between people and place.
Spatial Media designed high-quality 3D modelling with animations and incorporated this into a completely immersive virtual island experience highlighting the artworks and building the site visitor's understanding of the artist, process behind it and picking up on a cultural thread of the eighteen artists that supports local identity and belonging. This virtual world experience space is mobile friendly, is available 24/7 for the community and has the flexibility to accommodate new information, installation updates.

Since 2020 the site has successfully hosted an annual art competition format attracting incredible artworks and engaging school children throughout Australia using Spatial Media’s SpatialEngage platform. Our tailored approach has enabled Transurban the functionality to conduct shortlisting and judging and promote the competition winners all in the one platform.

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Andy Evans, Co-Founder, Star of the South

Richly detailed and cleverly interactive naturally

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Lisa McCuthion, General Manager – ¬Brand & Marketing, REMONDIS

From day one, Spatial Media grasped exactly what we needed

From day one, Spatial Media grasped exactly what we needed: a simple, interactive way for our community to stay up to date on local works. Their team was easy to work with, highly responsive, and open to every adjustment we requested. The end result exceeded our expectations.

Chris Ashton, Lismore City Council

They were committed to accuracy and no ask was too hard

Spatial Media understood our brief to a tee and delivered a high quality animation and renders to bring our project to life for the community. Despite a short timeframe, we were given multiple opportunities to provide feedback and suggest changes, all of which were easily understood and promptly actioned. Isaac and the team were flexible, responsive and hit every deadline. They were committed to accuracy and no ask was too hard. The end product will be a centrepiece for communicating our project to the public.

Emily Hou and Juliana Yu, Landcom

our solution for

Transurban Art Prize

Bringing to life the WestConnex Public Art Program – ‘Canal to Creek’ that has activated new and existing parklands in and surrounding the WestConnex road network footprint.