With You - Celebrating Pride Month
Celebrating courage and connection throughout Pride Month
We're proud to showcase two powerful pieces from Shannon Novak's "WITH YOU" series: "but always heard" and "interlaced, unyielding" - a vibrant celebration of LGBTQIA+ communities that transforms Heritage Lanes into a canvas of bold geometric forms and brilliant colours.
This powerful artwork is part of a broader collaboration between Mirvac and award-winning LGBTQIA+ artist Shannon Novak, with installations appearing across multiple Mirvac sites throughout Melbourne and Brisbane. Each piece embodies the 2025 Pride theme "Rise Up: Pride in Protest," creating spaces for reflection on courage, connection, and resilience.
Working directly with local LGBTQIA+ communities, Novak developed this series to authentically represent their voices and experiences. Heritage Lanes is home to two pivotal moments in this city-wide artistic journey. Each line of Novak's evocative poem is paired with specific Mirvac locations, creating a unified narrative across the city:
"Some walk in silence" - Southbank
"others move like thunder -" - 2 Riverside
"each step shaping the ground beneath us" - 4 Riverside
"Hands carry different histories," - 6 Riverside
"scars that speak in many languages" - 35 Collins
"Still, they reach - open, steady" - 55 Collins
"Voices rise in tones of sun and shadow," - 90 Collins
"not always in harmony," - 380 St. Kilda
"but always heard" - Heritage Lanes "80" and 410 Ann Street
"What is broken in one" - 477 Collins
"is often mended by another" - 600 Bourke
"We do not match, but we hold" - 664 Collins
"A single thread pulls tight," - 699 Bourke
"but many form cloth" - 700 Bourke
"This is how we last -" - Collins Place elevators
"interlaced, unyielding" - Heritage Lanes escalator
The Details:
- When: Until 30 June
- Where: Heritage Lanes Escalator & "80"
- Cost: Free to view
- Discover the artist: @shannon_novak_
Find your place in the narrative at Heritage Lanes, where art, community and connection converge.