One of the first community attempts to preserve the history of the Fletcher Jones factory site started with the Warrnambool arts community in 2005. A group of artists involved in an arts project named ExperimentaLAB took up residence alongside workers in the factory. As part of the project a replica Silver Ball sculpture was made that housed a TV screen showing a movie of the last months of the factory before it closed in December 2005.
The same artists then saw the factory being cleared out in 2007 with material, slides, photos, documents all heading to the rubbish tip. They could not bear to see this happen and salvaged what they could. This early interest in Fletcher Jones by artists sprouted the seed that would later become the F-Project Arts Collective.
