Suvira McDonaldAs a supporter you will be happy to know the project is making its way, in its own time through the labyrinthine process to materialisation. Thank you for your support, and I again would like to acknowledge the high level of financial support received from the Mullum businesses and the community. Special thanks go to Santos Organics and Leela Plantations for their most generous backing.

This project has been eight years in the making since its inception. It took two years to navigate the Development Application process in council, who, at the same time, waived the fees involved and then funded the project to the tune of $5000.

With our approval came four pages of consent conditions and which is another word for stumbling blocks. Between then and now we ran the fundraising campaign and have achieved a level of funding adequate to meet the needs of producing the first sculpture, Enter Here. For this we have had the help of local designer and technician, Luis Cristia, who has marvellously represented the sculpture in architectural drawings. These designs will form the basis of the engineering certification produced by distinguished local engineer, Phil Wallace, who currently has the plans. With Phil’s endorsement the plans will head on to Council to make our application for Construction Certificate. A small example of these drawings is included here.

The program then entails actually producing the painted poles and installing them on site, a task to be undertaken by Mullumbimby Engineering. We at Creative Mullumbimby trust your patience will endure through this somewhat arduous administrative phase of the execution.

The team at Creative Mullumbimby

The sculpture project is being carried by a team at Creative Mullum Inc., initiated by Suvira McDonald, administrative stage being carried by Malcolm Price, IT support from Ullrich Wallrodt and admin back up form Susan Fell-McLean. The Crowd funding campaign was a collective effort resulting in the additional $10K grant from Australian Cultural Fund through Creative Partnerships Australia, this has made a huge difference to our position of course and enabled us to proceed with confidence.

Once again your support is immensely appreciated. I will advise more detail about the actual production process in due course when we have a Construction Certificate. If there is more detail about the project you would like to know please reply to this email and I will get back to you.

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