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ClientDepartment of Public Works, now owned by Brisbane City
Council
Number of artworks commissioned 6
Public Art project budget $2.82 million
Awards
Project Services Excellence Awards, Project of the Year, Medium
– Winner 2010
Premier’s Awards for Excellence in Public Service Delivery,
Green: protecting our lifestyle and environment – Finalist 2010
This project has received nancial assistance through Arts
Queensland from art+place the Queensland Government Public Art
Fund.
Aorest
Location Kangaroo Point Park
Artist Nicole Voevodin-Cash
Medium Plantings
Size Variable
Completion date 2011
Photos by Rod Bucholz and Jamie Lawson
Artwork statementThis commemorative work re-establishes an
endemic forest of dry rainforest species on previously deforested
land. The espaliered and graed trees symbolize man’s desire to
control and shape nature.
Within this forest is a formal,shaded pathway and a meandering
arbour covered in the ‘Queen’s Wreath’ or purple petrea. The arbour
curves its way through the avenue of trees like a DNA strand. It
accentuates the idea of the trees being the life force of this site
and alludes to the processes involved in the geomorphic shaping of
place.
Department of Public Works |
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Kangaroo Point Park
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The Green Room
Location Kangaroo Point Park
Artist Nicole Voevodin-Cash
Medium Earth Mounds
Size Variable
Completion date 2011
Photos by Rod Bucholz
Artwork statementEssentially a so landscape amphitheatre a place
for romantic evenings as you take your seat to watch the
city/stage. This land artwork poetically references our laid back
lifestyle as it provides a place to recline and relax on green
undulations and a path to stroll along and ponder. It appearsas a
rolling wave or a ripple in the land, reminding us that even the
smallest action or idea has a ripple eect on our world.
Seven Versions of the Sun
Location Kangaroo Point Park
Artist Daniel Boyd
Medium Steel
Size Variable
Completion date 2010
Photos by Rod Bucholz
Artwork statementThe sculpture is a contemporary marker for the
eastern end of Kangaroo Point Park, acting as a portal between sea
and sky. It has a lightness and warmth apparent both to the user
and the observer, inspired by a rich mix of cultural, astrological
and natural references.
Department of Public Works |
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Untitled – Wormholes
Location Kangaroo Point Park
Artist Alexander Knox
Medium Steel and Sound
Size Variable
Completion date 2010
Photos by Rod Bucholz
Artwork statementA great forest once stood on this spot.
A stream cascaded over the rocks and the area was alive with the
sound of birds and frogs. The Jagera and Turrbal people hunted and
held ceremonies here. Later the soldiers and convicts cut the trees
and quarried the stone and planted crops. Aer them came
settlers,the church, the navy and the schools. As these things are
from our past, we are from their future.
A study: of dierent ways of being Temporary artwork for the
opening day, 24th Janurary 2010
Location Kangaroo Point Park
Artist Nicole Voevodin-Cash
Medium Variable
Size Variable
Completion date 2010
Photos by Rod Bucholz
Artwork statementA study: of dierent ways of being strongly
supports the dialogue between outside and inside and between place
and space creating a physical environment of leisure.
Department of Public Works |
http://www.projectservices.qld.gov.au/services/PublicArt.asp
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Venus Rising: Out of the Water and into the Light
Location Kangaroo Point Park
Artist Wolfgang Buttress
Medium Steel
Size 23m (h) x 4m (w)
Completion date 2012
Photos by Department of Public Works
Artwork statementVenus Rising at Kangaroo Point Park is a
slender torpedo shaped tower that was created by internationally
acclaimed artist, Wolfgang Buttress. The structure stands 23 metres
high and at night is illuminated providing the Brisbane skyline
with a unique and visible marker. As the winning sculpture of an
Arts Queensland public ballot, Venus Rising attracted almost 60% of
the 4500 votes placed and was selected as the iconic landmark of
choice for Brisbane’s newest riverside park.
Venus Rising is a sculpture more concerned with weightlessness
than mass, spiralling upwards with a delicate, elegant and almost
ethereal energy.
Floating arrangements of circles within the design create a
sense of bubbles and movement rising up through water. When
standing inside the sculpture, viewers look up into an unusual
spiral formation based on the intersection of central spines of the
nautilus shell.
The spiral refers to fundamental principles of geometry and
symbolism about transition, growth and evolution itself.
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http://www.projectservices.qld.gov.au/services/PublicArt.asp
