City Image Tour Melbourne

Overview

City Image Tour is created and delivered by Anthony McInneny, a visual artist, academic, and urban researcher who lived in the city centre in the 1980s, and returned in 2003 to create public artworks, and was part of the City of Melbourne's Arts Advisory Committee between 2004 and 2008. Anthony taught in RMIT University's Master of Art, Art in Public Space program from 2008 to 2014, and he has exhibited and published widely about public space for the last 10 years. The tour is designed to be walked and read as the story of the two Melbournes that have made this city the Cultural Capital of Australia. Art meets architecture in unique public spaces created in the transformation of the historic city to a riverfront city. Pivoting on the iconic Federation Square, we'll explore the city form, its cobblestone alleys and contemporary bluestone laneways, its pedestrianised heritage bridges, postmodern plaza, riverside promenade, and newest park that links the cultural and sporting precincts