Bimberi Youth Justice Centre 2007-8 was built as a human rights compliant youth detention facility as part of the Child and Youth Protection Service, Community Services Directorate, providing accommodation for young people between the ages of 10 and 21 years who are remanded in custody or sentenced to a period of detention. Tess Horwitz and Tony Steel were chosen to create artworks for the Centre as it was being built. The resultant artworks were developed through many stages in response to consultative sessions with Quamby staff and residents and the Vardon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Group and through collaboration with the Design Working Group. Stakeholders represented by the members of the Design Working Group were The Quamby residents and staff, the DHCS managers of Quamby and DHCS Project Manager, The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Vardon Reference Group, artsACT, and the project architect. The gatekeeper for the artist planners into the project was Conor McNamara, Hindmarsh project manager. The final artworks were designed to bring a sense of vibrancy, fun and beauty into the spaces, to be responsive to the expressed wishes and aesthetic preferences of the residents and to work in harmony with the architecture:
Materials: plywood, paint, affixing tape, DigiGlass, concrete pigments, handmade glazed tiles.
