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  • Sculpture

    Viva Voce

    One red stepladder and five marble clad pedestals are arranged amongst the trees at Speaker’s...

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  • Sculpture

    bara

    My concept for bara re-imagines ancient gathering spaces where people sat by fires on the headlands...

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  • Wooloomooloolife by Youth and Family Connect

    Mural

    Woolloomoolife

    The Woolloomooloo community view the mural as an acknowledgement of local history as well as a...

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  • Participatory

    Open Field Agency

    We have been asked to propose creative ideas that could make this new public place meaningful,...

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  • Dual Nature by Nigel Helyer

    Sculpture

    Dual Nature

    Steel sculptures blending natural and industrial shapes, with soundscape referencing local...

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  • The Cloud Gate by Lindy Lee

    Installation

    The Garden of Cloud and Stone

    Suspended shade sculptures formed from paired layers of domed, perforated white metal...

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  • City Wilderness Trail by Diego Bonetto, Tega Brain and Mark Gerada

    Installation

    City Wilderness Trail

    Series of 15 amusing and informative panels providing information about city wildlife...

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  • Augmenting Spatiality by RAP PAR

    Installation

    Augmenting Spatiality

    Inter-national light and sound installation including recorded ambient sound from Istanbul....

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  • Storm Waters by Michaelie Crawford and Jennifer Turpin

    Fountain

    Storm Waters

    Water stairs set into the embankments of Joynton Park that recycle purified storm water harvested...

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  • Dorsal Wing by Richard Goodwin

    Installation

    Dorsal Wing

    Wing-like awning protruding from Town Hall House providing shelter for...

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  • Mana Ngurang by Charles ‘Chicka’ Madden, Nicole Monks and UFO

    Mural

    Mana Ngurang

    Eco-friendly plywood “mural” depicting Gadigal figures and animals found in the rock art from...

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  • Deconstructing Ways by Isidro Blasco

    Installation

    Deconstructing Ways

    Mirror images in a photographic installation of an existing laneway produce a five-way...

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  • peri(pheral)scopes: looking over to the over-looked by Heidi Axelsen, Adriano Pupilli and Hugo Moline

    Installation

    peri(pheral)scopes: looking-over to the over-looked

    Brightly coloured air-conditioning ducts and video screens disguised as periscopes....

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  • The Amazing Rolling Picture Show by Emma Pike and Sarah Langdon

    Installation

    The Amazing Rolling Picture Show

    Video art by various artists and art collectives displayed on screens transported by custom-built...

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  • Untitled by Magda Sayeg

    Installation

    Untitled

    Knitted bollard covers and multi-coloured yarn panels fixed to the faces of the laneway...

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  • Bubbleway by Rebar

    Installation

    Bubbleway

    Collection of modular furniture created from inflated exercise balls encased in colourful...

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  • Untitled by Barry McGee

    Mural

    Untitled

    Two colourful yet provocative graffiti style artworks using tagging in Tank Stream...

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  • Donut by Brook Andrew

    Installation

    Donut

    A suspended inflatable sculpture of an oversized donut showcasing traditional Wiradjuri...

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  • Reflection by Jess Dare. Photo by Brett Boardman

    Memorial

    Reflection

    Reflection represents the community’s spontaneous outpouring of grief and compassion following...

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  • Abercrombie Lane, Sydney

    Installation

    Food on the table

    Participatory art based on the concept of a communal meal in a laneway prepared from discarded...

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  • Banker Baker Spanglemachine Maker by Justene Williams

    Installation

    Banker Baker Spanglemachine Maker

    Video performance within complex sets projected high onto the wall of the building in Curtin Place....

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  • Har Bour View by Jon Campbell

    Installation

    Har Bour View

    Large text banner with the words HAR BOUR VIEW against a pastel...

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  • Warriors by Jan van der Ploeg

    Installation

    Warriors

    Large billboard covered with a series of posters of repeating black and white graphic...

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  • For Rent by Rocket Mattler

    Installation

    For Rent

    Life size photograph of a suburban house with a painted metal sign stating, ‘Room for rent, apply...

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  • Rush by Nike Savvas

    Installation

    Rush

    Thousands of multi-coloured strips suspended from cables to form an animated ceiling for the...

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  • Milk and The Town That Was Mad by Mikala Dwyer

    Installation

    Milk and The Town That Was Mad

    Installation resembling a bar counter topped with assorted ashtrays, mounted on a metal safety...

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  • Woodwork by Simon Yates

    Poster Installation

    Woodwork

    Large paper photocopies pasted to the wall featuring old typewriters and telephones with hidden...

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  • Waterfalls by Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford

    Installation

    Water Falls

    Environmental sculpture of terracotta pipes suspended over wetlands to channel recycled storm...

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  • Shades of Green by Sonia van de Haar

    Installation

    Shades of Green

    Fun, functional artwork painted on six chimneys connected with the Prince Alfred Park...

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  • Day in Day Out by James Angus

    Sculpture

    Day In, Day Out

    Large-scale aluminium sculpture, a complex network of ellipsoidal shapes painted in earthy...

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  • Halo by Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford

    Installation

    Halo

    Kinetic sculpture inspired by the site’s heritage, representing the form and motion of brewing...

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  • Watling Tree by Caroline Rothwell

    Installation

    Watling Tree

    The translation of tree to paint to digital image to laser etch reflects a long journey laden with...

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  • Time Rings by Michaelie Crawford and Jennifer Turpin

    Installation

    Time Rings

    Interactive sculpture of stone rings with inscribed lettering encircling eight growing fig...

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  • Woolloomooloo by Locust Jones

    Mural

    Woolloomooloo

    Linen curtain celebrating local landmarks and history and commemorating campaigner Juanita Nielsen....

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  • Village Voices by Astra Howard

    Installation

    Village Voices

    Black metal frame with interchangeable letters, designed to capture and share untold local stories....

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  • Green Bans Park Friezes

    Mural

    Green Bans Park Friezes

    18 tile friezes tell the story of community activism that saved the parks from...

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  • Athena

    Sculpture

    Athena

    Large bronze statue of the Greek goddess Athena, given to Sydney by Athens during the 2000...

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  • Yurong Water Garden by Anita Glesta

    Fountain

    Yurong Water Garden

    An environmental artwork inspired by the original Yurong creek, set within three levels of...

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  • Poolside Cocktail by Philippa Playford

    Sculpture

    Coral’s Poolside Cocktail

    Installation of bright, colourful, functional sculptures in the leisure pool and sun lounge...

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  • Spanish Quarter Steps by Peter McGregor

    Installation

    Spanish Quarter Steps

    Metal staircase and framework of beams and lights above a heritage-listed sandstone...

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  • Wuganmgulya (Farm Cove) by Brenda Croft

    Installation

    Wuganmgulya (Farm Cove)

    Terrazzo work embedded into the foreshore to honour the importance of Indigenous people in...

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  • Material World Lightboxes by Merilyn Fairskye

    Installation

    Material World Lightboxes

    Colourful light boxes set into the tunnel walls, with images that seem to move as people hurry...

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  • Llankelly Place Lights by Peter McGregor

    Installation

    Llankelly Place Lights

    Series of large coloured starburst lights above a busy pedestrian laneway, a beloved local...

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  • SPAIDS Memorial by Simon Shaw

    Sculpture

    SPAIDS memorial

    Symbolic sandstone marker commemorating those lost to AIDS, within a large grove of native...

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  • Reflections by Michael Snape

    Sculpture

    Reflections

    Thoughtful piece of modern sculpture in deep red enameled metal, depicting two abstract...

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  • Sculpture in Honour of Marconii by Michael Kitching

    Sculpture

    Sculpture in Honour of Marconi

    Modern stainless-steel sculpture commemorating the close association between Australia and...

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  • Waterloo Second World War Memorial by F Arnold

    Memorial

    Waterloo Second World War Memorial

    Simple granite World War II memorial, set within a peaceful reserve in the busy heart of...

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  • Mural

    15 Women of Woolloomooloo

    Large mural depicting the lives of ordinary and extraordinary women who have lived in...

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  • Passing Through Customs by Michiel Dolk and Merilyn Fairskye

    Mural

    Passing Through Customs

    Large mural celebrating Woolloomooloo’s wharves and the diverse people who passed through its...

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  • BLF Green Bans by Michiel Dolk and Merilyn Fairskye

    Mural

    BLF Green Bans

    Mural depicts how the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) actions helped save Woolloomooloo from...

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