Arts Connect Inc.

Art Heritage Trail

To Celebrate the Festival of the Walks 2010, Arts Connect Inc. designed a new map for Montville that combined an existing Heritage Trail with a new Arts trail.

Images of the artworks were used to create a freize around the map of Main Street with buttons identificating the placing of the bronze heritage plaques and the artworks. During the late 1990s Montville underwent a transformation with the identification of historical sites with bronze plaques, and the installation of commissioned artworks in the landscaping of the street.

In 1997 local artists Richard Newport and Kevin Oxley designed decorative pavers symbolising local natural history and the early pioneers. A sculpture 'Pitsaws' from Hew Chee Fong and Loretta Noonan draws inspiration from the former timber industry in the area.

In 1999, Richard Newport designed a series of 10 metal footpath inlays featuring the local endangered fauna. Ralph Driessen Metalmorphosis designed elegant balustrading for the streetscape with a sub-tropical reference. Raby Bay Sculptors used the boomerang to design sandstone seating that referenced the aboriginal meetings at Bunya festivals as well as a 'Milestone' depicting the landscape and topography of the area.

In 1999, Trevor Spohr led the children of Montville State School in creating clay pavers depicting the history of their school and community and now placed in front of the school grounds.

In 2001 Else Schlunke designed large decorative pavers celebrating the agricultural heritage of Montville depicting the fruit products of the area and former indigenous heritage of the Bunya Nut Festival.

The map was produced with assistance of the Montville Chamber of Commerce and is available at the Information Centre and other outlets in the Village. A PDF of the map can be downloaded using the following link: