Commemorative Flood Installation Project
Your story. Your artwork. Your say.
Residents across 10 Loddon Shire towns are being invited to help shape permanent works of art that will commemorate the floods of 2022, 2023 and 2024, remembering the collective community strength and connection that endured throughout the disaster.
Loddon Shire Council has commissioned a new project, the Commemorative Flood Installation, that will see a unique, place-based artwork created for each of the 10 flood-affected towns across the shire: Newbridge, Bridgewater, Serpentine, Calivil, Dingee, Mitiamo, Pyramid Hill, Boort, Wedderburn and Korong Vale.
Your voice shapes the design
Community sessions began on Tuesday, 12 May, with workshops running through May and into June. Sessions will be held in familiar local venues and everyone is welcome to come along - see the list on the right and click on the venue you wish to attend for more information.
The workshops aren't surveys or tick-box exercises. They are story-led conversations, designed to draw out what the floods meant to each community: the impact, the grit, the neighbours who showed up, and the moments of connection that carried people through.
Two Central Victorian artists, Aimee Chapman and David Gagliardi of Sonic Gold, will attend the sessions as listeners, absorbing the felt sense of each community's story before translating it into a visual concept. Community stories will directly shape concept for the artwork.
As part of each session, community members will also be asked to nominate a preferred location for their installation within their own town, a park, a memorial space, the town centre. Somewhere that feels right for the story being told. Alternative locations can also be put forward. All nominations will feed into Council's planning and approvals process.
Can't make a session? There's still a way in
Not everyone will be able to attend in person. A written or phone-call submission pathway is available for those who want their voice included but can't attend a workshop.
Once concept designs are complete, they will be published on this page from 29 June, where the wider community can view and respond to the proposed artwork and location for their town.