Last week, mayor Paul Klisaris officially unveiled The Stilt Walkers, a sculpture at the Wellington Reserve Community Centre, Mulgrave.

The sculpture, by Melbourne artists Velislav Georgiev and Tor Roxburgh, is the first in a series of $50,000 artworks commissioned by the City of Monash public artwork program.

Georgiev said the sculpture's three figures captured the history of the centre.

"The first stilt-walker is decorated with clover leaves to represent the Girl Guides. The second is decorated with knots to represent Scouts and the last is decorated with confetti and streamers to represent the Neighbourhood House as a celebration of the community.''

Cr Klisaris said public art was a means of remembering and celebrating who we were as a community.

"Public art adds colour to the community and it used to sadden me that as a nation we don't have enough of that.''

He said a case in point was the Father Moutafis memorial statue in Oakleigh.

"There isn't a day that doesn't go by that people don't walk by it and have a private reflection to themselves, or that you will see flowers that have been left there,'' Cr Klisaris said.

Mulgrave Neighbourhood House president Brenda Gabe said the three figures were symbolic of a bright future for the community centre.

"We see the three figures as leading the way into the house, all coming together as one group.

"It's the finishing touch on a fantastic centre.''