Eight local artists with varying backgrounds (including a Noongar artist), experiences and styles have been commissioned to create public art for Alkimos, Eglinton and Yanchep stations as part of the METRONET Yanchep Rail Extension Project. These art pieces will celebrate the unique cultural, historical and environmental aspects of each station and its surrounding area.
Alkimos Station
Moon Over Ocean, Land Under Sun
By Caroline Christie-Coxon
Two glazed spheres will provide a bold and modern statement at the station entry and represent the threshold where bushland meets Perth’s urban fringe. The designs relate to the natural flora, land, sea and skyscapes of Alkimos – a place linked to tidal flows, surf and shifting sands where coastal breezes and native wilderness interact.
Ceiling installation
By Jarni McGuire
Inspired by the Melaleuca Paperbark tree found throughout Alkimos, the artwork will tell a story of the rainbow serpent who created the fresh waterways and connects all lakes and water systems.
Platform wall mural
By Chris Nixon
The mural-based artwork will use lines from the Melaleuca Paperbark tree found throughout Alkimos to build swell lines to reflect the coast and waves washing up onto the shore. These lines will be abstracted to form the word ‘Alkimos’.
Eglinton Station
Ceiling installation and entry screens
By Ian Mutch
The layered ceiling and entry screen artworks will portray local species Grevillea Preissii and Western Xenica butterflies. The work celebrates the world around us and highlights the beauty of rhythms and tiny details found in nature.
Platform wall artwork
By Concreto
The tile-based artwork will reflect Eglinton’s landscape through rhythmic colour sequences expressing the area’s natural environment - the ocean’s bleached sandy colours, spikey flora and craggy, weather-beaten limestone outcrops; the greener colours of the Tuart forest with spring flowers of pink and red; and the subdued colours and murkier tones of the lakes, swamps and caves.
Yanchep Station
Shade canopies
By Buffie Corunna
Featured on the underside of the station entry shade canopies, the artwork will showcase Yanchep’s native fauna and flora with designs representing various meeting places, the Yanchep lagoon and beaches, and the reef and marine life.
Ceiling installation
By Penelope Forlano
The artwork will feature a central undulating ‘spine’ with hanging elements representing the stalactites and natural forces that shape Yanchep’s wetlands, lagoons and caves. These elements will take commuters on pathways of sailing through ocean waves, the reef separating the ocean from lagoon, or a snake winding through the Yandjip bullrush reeds at the lake.
Platform wall mural
By Jack Bromell
The mural will feature background colours from Yanchep’s reefs, lagoons, limestone cliffs, Banksia forests, wetlands and Tuart trees, and foreground images of Banksia leaves, Tuart Eucalyptus leaves, Carnaby black cockatoos and kangaroos. Words provided by the local community about their connection to Yanchep will weave in between these images.