Personal Islands, Robert Jacks, Brass and bluestone, 1992, Swanston St, Bourke St
Summary
Location: Swanston St, near cnr Bourke St
Brass inlaid into bluestone pavers.
In 1988, Robert Jacks spent six months in Cornwall, England, during which he filled 28 sketchbooks with drawings based on graffiti from museums and the streets. Personal Islands takes its inspiration from those sketches, transforming the illicit art of graffiti into a sanctioned and more permanent form.
This work was commissioned on the 21st of September 1992 as part of the Swanston Street Walk Public Art Project and the City of Melbourne's Percent for Art Program. The program, adopted in 1992, allocates one percent of the City of Melbourne's capital works budget to funding public art. Its goal was to enable "public art to be successfully integrated into the fabric of design and development in the city."
